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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are taught as underlying principles of Gikuyu education?
(a) Familial relations, living and dead and age groupings.
(b) Tribal legends.
(c) How to make weapons and pottery.
(d) How to be agriculturists.

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

3. How many sheep are slaughtered for the marriage feast?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a man pay when he is initiated into the religious and sacrificial council?

2. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?

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

4. What does the father teach his son about plants and roots?

5. At what age is the first stage of Gikuyu youth marked?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the initiation of a Gikuyu girl.

2. Whom do the Gikuyu worship as God?

3. Why does Kenyatta defend the clitoridectomy of Gikuyu girls?

4. Describe the rise of new religions in Africa.

5. What must a Gikuyu boy do when he wants to get married?

6. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

7. What did the Gikuyu constitution state?

8. What happens if rain fails to fall normally?

9. What is circumcision required for among Gikuyus?

10. What happens when a man has a hut suitable for his wife?

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