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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. What qualities does Mr. Kenyatta display which are rare among students of social science?
(a) Intelligence and humility.
(b) Outspokenness and honesty.
(c) Curiosity and persistence.
(d) Bravery and diligence.

2. How do the Gikuyu children gain physical strength?
(a) Digging in the garden.
(b) Climbing trees.
(c) Exercises.
(d) Dances.

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

4. What can't a man get without sheep and goats?
(a) Status.
(b) Land.
(c) Wife.
(d) Hut.

5. What are taught as underlying principles of Gikuyu education?
(a) How to be agriculturists.
(b) Tribal legends.
(c) How to make weapons and pottery.
(d) Familial relations, living and dead and age groupings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Gikuyu name for millet?

2. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?

3. What does Kenyatta fear about western education?

4. To whom did Kenyatta act as interpreter to in his big land case?

5. Who leads the initiates to the homestead?

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