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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. Where did the people living in the forests build their homes?
(a) In ckearings.
(b) On the plain.
(c) Underground.
(d) In the trees.

2. What was the short name of the famous medicine man of the Gikuyu who prophesied the coming of Europeans with guns?
(a) Luku.
(b) Giku.
(c) Mogo.
(d) Wama.

3. What do the Gikuyu call their grandmother?
(a) Lolo.
(b) Coco.
(c) Mamba.
(d) Baba.

4. In what part of Kenya does the country of the Gikuyu lie?
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Central.

5. What was the founder of the Gikuyu tribe called?
(a) Mogai.
(b) Mombassa.
(c) Mowgli.
(d) Moombi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the key to the life of the Gikuyu?

2. What does Mr. Kenyatta recognize which is all important?

3. What is a moherega?

4. What was the condition that the nine men had to agree to if they wanted to marry Gikuyu's daughters?

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

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