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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. To whom does Kenyatta write that he is indebted to concerning technical advice on anthropological points?
(a) Dr. James Woodman.
(b) Dr. Albert Schmidt.
(c) Dr. William Forth.
(d) Dr. Raymond Firth.

2. What does Mr. Kenyatta recognize which is all important?
(a) The danger of fame and fortune.
(b) His love of the European culture.
(c) His lack of education.
(d) The danger of his own bias.

3. Where did Kenyatta live when he was learning the methods of warfare?
(a) On the Serengeti plain.
(b) Near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(c) Near Ngare Narok.
(d) In Nairobi.

4. How did the Gikuyus explain the relation of their tribe with the Europeans?
(a) With the story of a fox and a man.
(b) With a story about a lion with a man.
(c) With a story about a Rhinoceros and a man.
(d) With a story about an elephant and a man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the Gikuyu live as squatters on farms on European land?

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

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

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

5. What were the people who lived in the forests called?

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