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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 Kenyatta fear western education will do to the Gikuyu society?

2. What is the sound of the Gikuyu's God's movement?

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

4. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?

5. What does the boy do when he is accepted by the girl for marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the initiation of a Gikuyu girl.

2. Describe the rise of new religions in Africa.

3. What did the Gikuyu constitution state?

4. Whom do the Gikuyu worship as God?

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

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

7. What is considered the sound of Ngai's movement? What is his weapon?

8. What are reasons for divorce in Gikuyu society?

9. Where do the Gikuyu worship?

10. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Describe how the father, mother, and grandparents are treated by other members of the family.

2) What is the difference between children of the same mother and children of the same father and the difference between the sister of the mother and the sister of the father?

3) What is the relationship of relatives by marriage?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) How did the making of iron come about in the Gikuyu tribe?

2) Describe how the Gikuyu make iron.

3) What do the Gikuyus make out of iron?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) How does Kenyatta defend the clitoridectomy of Gikuyu girls?

2) Describe the initiation of a Gikuyu girl. What is done to her the day before the the surgery? Describe all the steps in initiation. What privileges does she have after surgery?

3) Describe the initiation of a Gikuyu boy. What privileges does he have after he is circumcised?

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