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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 is done the day before the circumcision operation?

2. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?

3. What is the Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?

4. Who plants the seeds in the Gikuyu society?

5. When do the Gikuyu make sacrifices to their god?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the initiation of a Gikuyu girl.

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

4. Whom do the Gikuyu worship as God?

5. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation? How do the mothers and nurses educate the very young?

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

7. What does a Gikuyu mother teach her children?

8. What happens if rain fails to fall normally?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) Describe the basic units of the Gikuyu tribe.

2) Describe the story of the creation of the Gikuyu tribe.

3) Why and how did the Gikuyus change from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the following essay topics.

1) List the eleven types of Gikuyu magic.

2) Describe how charm and protective magic is used to protect one from wild animals and harmful entities.

3) Describe the love magic used to obtain the love of many for an individual.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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