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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. Where did Kenyatta live when he was learning the methods of warfare?
(a) In Nairobi.
(b) Near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(c) On the Serengeti plain.
(d) Near Ngare Narok.
2. 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.
3. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?
(a) The Watusi.
(b) The Masai.
(c) The Ndorobo.
(d) The pygmies.
4. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?
(a) To build up the numbers of tribe members.
(b) To force a change to a patriarchal society.
(c) To prove their virility.
(d) To follow an old tribal custom.
5. In what part of Kenya does the country of the Gikuyu lie?
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Central.
(d) Southern.
Short Answer Questions
1. As a member of the warrior class, with what other tribe's warfare methods did Kenyatta become acquainted?
2. How does one say my or our mother in Gikuyu?
3. What was Kenyatta's grandfather?
4. Which animals are the most valuable to the Gikuyus?
5. What is the mbari or nyomba?
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