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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Kenyatta recognize which is all important?

2. What was the name of the second Royal Commission on land tenure?

3. What is the sign of wealth among the Gikuyu?

4. What were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?

5. What united people in Africa against Western influence, above all against Great Britain and the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Malinkowski write that we can't criticize Kenyatta for belief in magic?

2. How are the children in the Gikuyu tribe viewed?

3. What are cattle used for in Gikuyu society?

4. What is considered to be the most important aspect of Gikuyu society and why?

5. How are the cultural and historical traditions of the Gikuyu people handed down from generation to generation?

6. What do the Gikuyu do for a living?

7. What qualities does Kenyatta exhibit in his book that are rare among students of social science?

8. Describe the Gikuyu hut of a woman.

9. What is the origin of the Gikuyu's use of iron?

10. What happened when the descendents of Gikuyu outgrew the land?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Describe hate magic and when it is used.

2) What is destructive magic considered to be by the Gikuyu people? How do they view it? What happened to people who practiced it before the Europeans came?

3) Describe how witch's poison is made. Who knows how to make it? What does it contain?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Why is the love magic to obtain the love of many for one considered dangerous?

2) What are the more popular kinds of love magic?

3) Describe what is done in healing magic.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) What happens to a boy after he is circumcised? What groups does he join and when?

2) What are the reasons for war among the Gikuyu people. Describe the wars.

3) Describe the court system in the Gikuyu culture.

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