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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through System of Education, Initiation of Boys and Girls and Sex Life among Yong People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does a well built hut usually last?
(a) Five or more years.
(b) Seven or more years.
(c) Ten or more years.
(d) One or more years.

2. At what age is a Gikuyu child circumcised?
(a) Seventeen or eighteen.
(b) Fifteen or sixteen.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Twelve or thirteen.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did the Gikuyu buy grain?

2. Under what kind of tree did Gikuyu and his family find nine young men to marry Gikuyu's daughters?

3. Which animals are the most valuable to the Gikuyus?

4. What are the young taught?

5. What is iron beaten into a heap is called?

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