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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 the father teach his son about plants and roots?

2. In what year did members of the new religion clash with police?

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

4. What did the Gikuyus consider "white man's magic"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

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

3. Whom do the Gikuyu worship as God?

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

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

6. Where do the Gikuyu worship?

7. Describe the harvesting ceremony.

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

9. Describe the rise of new religions in Africa.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) What are the three types of Gikuyu spirituality and why are they all important to Gikuyu culture?

2) Describe the Gikuyu God, Ngai.

3) Describe Gikuyu religion.

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Describe Gikuyu hut building. Who builds the huts? How long does it take?

2) Describe a Gikuyu woman's hut.

3) Describe a Gikuyu man's hut.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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