3. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?
(a) Something that should be eventually banned.
(b) A necessary ordeal.
(c) The unification of the whole tribe.
(d) A time to fight fear.

4. What is done the day before the circumcision operation?
(a) The head is shaved.
(b) Feathers are put in the hair.
(c) A bracelet with bells is put around the ankle.
(d) The body is painted red and white.

5. When a man becomes ill, ________________ are sought.
(a) Gikuyu gods.
(b) Medicine men.
(c) Seers.
(d) Elders.

6. At what age is the first stage of Gikuyu youth marked?
(a) Four or five years old.
(b) Eight years old.
(c) Three or four years old.
(d) Six or seven years old.

7. How do the mother and the nurse educate the very young?
(a) Through poems.
(b) With toys.
(c) Through stories.
(d) Through lullabies.

8. What is a name of the Gikuyu God?
(a) Bogai.
(b) Ngai.
(c) Lunai.
(d) Baloo.

9. What are the young taught?
(a) The Gikuyu language.
(b) History of the tribe and family traditions.
(c) How to dress themselves.
(d) How to bathe themselves.

10. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?
(a) At twenty years old.
(b) A few years after the piercing of the outer ear.
(c) At fifteen years old.
(d) At seventeen years old.

11. What do the boy's parents have to collect?
(a) Jewelry and food for a gift to the girl's family.
(b) Cattle for a dowry.
(c) Sheep and goats for a dowry.
(d) Money for a dowry.

12. When the boy is accepted in marriage, what do his parents do?
(a) They visit the parents of the bride to be.
(b) They explain the duties of being a husband to their son.
(c) They consult with the medicine man of the tribe.
(d) They thank their ancestors in prayer.

13. What do the boys and girls do after the location of the surgery is blessed and ancestral spirits appeased?
(a) They dance in a circle.
(b) They eat a special food.
(c) They kneel and pray to their ancestors.
(d) They go to the same tree.

14. What do the girls and their sponsors do in the hut on the day of circumcision?
(a) They sing a special initiation song.
(b) They dance together.
(c) They exchange vows.
(d) The girls sit between the legs of their sponsors.

15. Why does Kenyatta feel the Gikuyu form of education is better than formal education.
(a) The child is happier with this kind of education.
(b) The child is learning all the time.
(c) The child isn't exposed to the wrong ideas.
(d) The child doesn't have to leave the home.