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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 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 kill a ram as a sacrifice.
(c) To go up to the top of Mt. Kenya and pray.
(d) To live under a matriarchal system.

2. Which two men are responsible for undertaking the new drive in French folklore?
(a) Proust and Lamartine.
(b) Victor Hugo and Balzac.
(c) Baudelaire and Saint Exupery.
(d) Riviere and Varagniac.

3. What is the mbari or nyomba?
(a) Witch doctor.
(b) Hut of a male Gikuyu.
(c) Family group.
(d) Hut of a female Gikuyu.

4. Which animals are the most valuable to the Gikuyus?
(a) Pigs and calves.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Horses and cattle.
(d) Sheep and goats.

5. What is riika?
(a) Initiation of a girl.
(b) Initiation of a boy.
(c) Group of Gikuyu elders.
(d) Age-grading among the Gikuyu.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Gikuyus explain the relation of their tribe with the Europeans?

2. Between which two countries was the African railway built?

3. How many stages of eldership did Kenyatta pass

4. What has become the attitude of modern social science?

5. As a member of the warrior class, with what other tribe's warfare methods did Kenyatta become acquainted?

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