Mama Miti Vocabulary Test

1-5. Match each definition on top with the correct word on the bottom.

• ceremonies

• expressing feelings of sadness

• offering

• a substance used for treating an illness

• medicine

• formal religious or public events

• tradition

• customs or beliefs passed down among a group of people

• lamenting

• giving or presenting

6. For the past 25 years, the school has had a ____________________ of planting a new tree in the playground on the first day of April.

• ceremony
• tradition
• medicine
• offering

7. The villagers spent many months ________________ that the nearby river was so dirty after the flood. "We will plant mukuyu, the giant sacred fig tree to act as nature's filter and clean the water," said their leader.

• offering
• making ceremonies
• lamenting
• in tradition

8. Some trees, such as the willow or poplar, are used as natural ingredients in the making of aspirin and other types of ______________.

• medicine
• offering
• ceremonies
• traditions

9. In the old days, men held _____________________ under a sacred tree and they were blessed with rain.

• offering
• ceremonies
• traditions
• medicine

10. She was ____________ you a choice -- plant a murigono tree or a muhuti tree.

• lamenting
• offering
• tradition
• medicine

BONUS!

All of the trees in "Mama Miti" had names starting with the letter ___.