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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tribal Origin and Kinship System and The Gikuyu System of Land Tenure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the approximate population of the Gikuyu country?
(a) Two million.
(b) A half a million.
(c) One and a half million.
(d) One million.

2. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?
(a) The big noise.
(b) The steel caterpillar.
(c) The iron dragon.
(d) The iron snake.

3. What does Mr. Kenyatta recognize which is all important?
(a) The danger of fame and fortune.
(b) His lack of education.
(c) His love of the European culture.
(d) The danger of his own bias.

4. What was the name of the second Royal Commission on land tenure?
(a) Royal Committee of Kenya.
(b) Nairobi Royal Commission.
(c) British-Gikuyu Royal Commission.
(d) Joint Committee on the Closer Union of East Africa.

5. What was the condition that the nine men had to agree to if they wanted to marry Gikuyu's daughters?
(a) To undergo an immediate initiation operation.
(b) To live under a matriarchal system.
(c) To kill a ram as a sacrifice.
(d) To go up to the top of Mt. Kenya and pray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the resting place of the Divider of the Universe, the creator of the Gikuyu tribe?

2. What were the people who lived in the forests called?

3. What was the short name of the famous medicine man of the Gikuyu who prophesied the coming of Europeans with guns?

4. What do the Gikuyu call their grandmother?

5. Where did Kenyatta live when he was learning the methods of warfare?

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