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

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

3. What is the first thing the Gikuyu do when they decide evil spirits have brought illness?
(a) Ask the medicine man for a spell.
(b) Pray to their god.
(c) Make a sacrifice to their god.
(d) Choose a night to fight the evil spirits.

4. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?
(a) A special hut.
(b) Mt. Kenya.
(c) The outdoors.
(d) The home.

5. When does a man become a member of the Court of Elders?
(a) After two children are circumcised.
(b) After one child is circumcised.
(c) When he owns a house.
(d) When he marries.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is a man initiated into the council of peace?

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

3. How is the first stage of youth marked in the Gikuyu tribe?

4. What do the boys and girls do after the location of the surgery is blessed and ancestral spirits appeased?

5. When the man has a hut suitable for his wife what happens?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Gikuyu society become democratic?

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

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

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

5. What happens once all the dowry animals are paid to the parents of the bride?

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

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

8. Where do the Gikuyu worship?

9. What did the Gikuyu constitution state?

10. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

(see the answer keys)

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