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

2. When an animal is to be sacrificed to God, where is the ceremony held?

3. What does Kenyatta fear about western education?

4. On what day is the woman admitted into the husband's clan?

5. When can the Gikuyu people participate in the government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

2. Whom do the Gikuyu worship as God?

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

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

5. What did the Gikuyu constitution state?

6. What is circumcision required for among Gikuyus?

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

8. How many wives does a Gikuyu man usually have? How many husbands does a Gikuyu woman usually have?

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

10. Where do the Gikuyu worship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Describe the history of the Gikuyu system of government. How and why did it become a democratic government?

2) Describe how the Gikuyu Constitution was written and what it contains.

3) List the different Gikuyu councils. Why are they important?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Describe what the Gikuyus do when rain fails to fall normally. What do the seers do?

2) Describe the ceremony of sacrificing a lamb to Ngai, the Gikuyu God.

3) Describe the Gikuyu planting ceremony.

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