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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 serves as churches for the Gikuyu?

2. What do the boy's parents have to collect?

3. What does Kenyatta fear about western education?

4. Where are the strips of the sacrificial animal buried ?

5. Who leads the initiates to the homestead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

2. How did the Gikuyu society become democratic?

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

4. What are the three types of Gikuyu spirituality?

5. What is circumcision required for among Gikuyus?

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

7. Where do the Gikuyu worship?

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

9. Describe the planting ceremony.

10. What did the Gikuyu constitution state?

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 the customs of sex life among young Gikuyu people.

2) Describe marriage in the Gikuyu culture. How many wives do Gikuyu men usually have? How many husbands do Gikuyu woman usually have?

3) What is the basis for divorce for Gikuyu men and Gikuyu women?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Discuss land ownership among the Gikuyus and its history.

2) What is the story of the medicine man named Mogo? What did he prophesy?

3) What must a man do in order to buy land?

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