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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Economic Life and Industries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the sign of wealth among the Gikuyu?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Sons.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Goats.

2. How do the Masai regard cultivation of the soil?
(a) As an occupation.
(b) As a crime against their gods.
(c) As a way to train their children.
(d) As a major source of food supply.

3. Into how many administrative districts is the Gikuyu territory divided?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

5. What are Gikuyu shields made of?
(a) Elephant hide.
(b) Buffalo hide.
(c) Rhinoceros hide.
(d) Lion hide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Gikuyu name for millet?

2. The ore is reduced to ____________.

3. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?

4. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.

5. What were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?

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