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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 name of Gikuyu's wife?
(a) Moombi.
(b) Mikuji.
(c) Mombooli.
(d) Malinbi.

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

3. What is a moherega?
(a) Gikuyu clan.
(b) Gikuyu of the warrior class.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Farmer.

4. How did the Gikuyu lose most of their lands?
(a) Through their magnanimity.
(b) Through selling their land to the Europeans.
(c) Through fighting with the Europeans.
(d) Through deserting their lands and moving southward.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kenyatta gave evidence before the Morris Carter Kenya Land Commission in London in what year?

2. During what years did Kenyatta start and edit the first Gikuyu journal?

3. What was the name of Kenyatta's aunt who performed the initiation operation on Gikuyu girls?

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

5. What position did Kenyatta hold in the Gikuyu Central Association?

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