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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Marriage System and The Gikuyu System of Government.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kenyatta think the European teacher coming to Africa should do?
(a) Learn the Gikuyu way.
(b) Share their knowledge of other subjects.
(c) Set up western schools.
(d) Be circumcised.

2. When the boy is accepted in marriage, what do his parents do?
(a) They visit the parents of the bride to be.
(b) They explain the duties of being a husband to their son.
(c) They thank their ancestors in prayer.
(d) They consult with the medicine man of the tribe.

3. In the prophesy of the Gikuyu medicine man, what was the color of the bodies of the men who were to come out of the big water?
(a) The color of white leopards.
(b) The color of white butterflies.
(c) The color of a small light-colored frog living in water.
(d) The color of light-colored fish.

4. What does the bride do when the husband's relatives come to take her to his hut?
(a) She sings to them.
(b) She hugs them.
(c) She gives them flowers.
(d) She pretends to struggle against them.

5. On what day is the woman admitted into the husband's clan?
(a) The eighth.
(b) The seventh.
(c) The sixth.
(d) The nineth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the fathers teach their young sons?

2. What has become the attitude of modern social science?

3. How many wives do Gikuyu men usually have?

4. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?

5. What does the boy do when he is accepted by the girl for marriage?

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