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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 did the government of the Gikuyu become eventually?
(a) A dictatorship.
(b) A democratic government.
(c) A communal system.
(d) A kingdom ruled by royalty.

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

3. What is the sound of the Gikuyu's God's movement?
(a) Rushing river water.
(b) Mighty wind.
(c) Rustling trees.
(d) Thunder,.

4. What is the first stage of Gikuyu courtship?
(a) The boy sings outside the girl's hut in the evening.
(b) The boy and his friends visit the home of the girl.
(c) The boy sends gifts to the girl's hut.
(d) The boy asks the girl's father for her hand in marriage.

5. What does Kenyatta fear western education will do to the Gikuyu society?
(a) Give Gikuyus an inferiority complex.
(b) Tempt them to leave Kenya and go abroad.
(c) Turn them against their ancestors.
(d) Be the downfall of the structure of the clan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who plants the seeds in the Gikuyu society?

2. What does Kenyatta think the European teacher coming to Africa should do?

3. What was the first ruler of the Gikuyu people like?

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

5. When does a man become a member of the Court of Elders?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when a Gikuyu girl accepts a boy in marriage?

3. Describe the stages of youth in the Gikuyu society.

4. What is considered the sound of Ngai's movement? What is his weapon?

5. What are reasons for divorce in Gikuyu society?

6. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

7. Whom do the Gikuyu worship as God?

8. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation? How do the mothers and nurses educate the very young?

9. What does Kenyatta hope his analysis of the educational system of the Gikuyu will help the Europeans understand?

10. Describe the rise of new religions in Africa.

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