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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is done to the girl's body prior to surgery?
(a) It is washed in the mother's hut.
(b) It is blessed by the medicine man.
(c) It is painted with sacred colors.
(d) It is massaged and adorned with beads.

2. When does a junior warrior become a senior warrior?
(a) Twelve rain seasons after his weapons are blessed.
(b) After he make his own weapons.
(c) After he marries more than five women.
(d) After he takes part in a battle.

3. In what year did members of the new religion clash with police?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1934
(d) 1932.

4. When do the Gikuyu make sacrifices to their god?
(a) For good health.
(b) For a good harvest.
(c) For fertility.
(d) Only in dire circumstances and when rain fails to fall.

5. How many oaths control the court proceedings of the Gikuyu?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

6. Who plants the seeds in the Gikuyu society?
(a) Women and children.
(b) All males.
(c) Only the elders.
(d) Medicine men.

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

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

9. Who leads the initiates to the homestead?
(a) Senior warriors.
(b) The father.
(c) The mother.
(d) The medicine man.

10. For what did the Europeans condemn the Gikuyus?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Medicine men.
(c) Magic.
(d) Circumcision.

11. On what day is the woman admitted into the husband's clan?
(a) The sixth.
(b) The seventh.
(c) The nineth.
(d) The eighth.

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

13. How many women are Gikuyu men allowed to marry?
(a) As many as they can support.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twenty-five.

14. When the man has a hut suitable for his wife what happens?
(a) He takes her to the hut himself.
(b) He builds the sacred fire in the middle of the hut.
(c) The bride is taken to his hut by his female relatives.
(d) He begins furnishing it.

15. What was the first ruler of the Gikuyu people like?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Beloved by the people.
(c) Tyrannical.
(d) Benevolent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Gikuyus consider "white man's magic"?

2. What animal is sacrificed to the Gikuyu god?

3. In what manner is the sacrificial animal killed?

4. What did the government of the Gikuyu become eventually?

5. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?

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