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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Religion and Ancestor Worship and The New Religion in East Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what or whom does an elder recite a prayer at the planting ceremony?
(a) Rain dancers.
(b) Future harvest.
(c) Mountain.
(d) Gikuyu God.

2. What does the father teach his son about plants and roots?
(a) Which ones are poisonous.
(b) Which ones have magic power.
(c) The names and uses.
(d) Nothing.

3. How does one say my or our mother in Gikuyu?
(a) Maba.
(b) Mooli.
(c) Maito.
(d) Moobi.

4. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?
(a) At twenty years old.
(b) At fifteen years old.
(c) A few years after the piercing of the outer ear.
(d) At seventeen years old.

5. When a man becomes ill, ________________ are sought.
(a) Medicine men.
(b) Seers.
(c) Elders.
(d) Gikuyu gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?

2. Between which two countries was the African railway built?

3. What kind of games do the young Gikuyu play?

4. What do the fathers teach their young sons?

5. What was the founder of the Gikuyu tribe called?

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