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

2. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?

3. For what is the man's hut used?

4. What has become the attitude of modern social science?

5. What is the key to the life of the Gikuyu?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Malinkowski maintain would be a good enough reason for the book?

2. What are the basic units of the Gikuyu tribe?

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

4. What work do the Gikuyu men do?

5. Describe the hut of a male Gikuyu.

6. What enabled Kenyatta to write an ethnography of the Gikuyu tribe?

7. What are cattle used for in Gikuyu society?

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

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

10. What are sheep and goats used for in Gikuyu society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Describe the harvesting ceremony.

2) Describe the ceremony to chase away illness and disease.

3) Describe the communion of Gikuyus with their ancestors. What does Kenyatta compare it with in European culture?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) In the "Conclusion" what does Kenyatta reiterate is so important about the Gikuyu culture.

2) Why does Kenyatta feel learning in the family environment is healthy?

3) Explain how reading "Facing Mount Kenya - Tribal Life of the Gikuyu" changed or didn't change your opinion of Africans. Do you now admire the Gikuyus ? Why? Why not?

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