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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. Between which two countries was the African railway built?
(a) Kenya-Cairo.
(b) Ethiopia-Uganda.
(c) Uganda-Kenya.
(d) Rwanda-Kenya.

2. At what age is the first stage of Gikuyu youth marked?
(a) Eight years old.
(b) Six or seven years old.
(c) Four or five years old.
(d) Three or four years old.

3. How did the Gikuyu lose most of their lands?
(a) Through fighting with the Europeans.
(b) Through selling their land to the Europeans.
(c) Through their magnanimity.
(d) Through deserting their lands and moving southward.

4. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?
(a) To prove their virility.
(b) To force a change to a patriarchal society.
(c) To build up the numbers of tribe members.
(d) To follow an old tribal custom.

5. How many of the Gikuyu live as squatters on farms on European land?
(a) 110,000,
(b) 95,000.
(c) 75,000.
(d) 105,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two men are responsible for undertaking the new drive in French folklore?

2. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.

3. Where do the men, women, and children beat the bushes to chase the evil spirits away?

4. What do Gikuyus do instead of praying to their ancestral spirits?

5. How many partitions are in the male Gikuyu's hut?

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