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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 does Kenyatta fear western education will do to the Gikuyu society?
(a) Turn them against their ancestors.
(b) Be the downfall of the structure of the clan.
(c) Give Gikuyus an inferiority complex.
(d) Tempt them to leave Kenya and go abroad.

2. When does a man become a member of the Court of Elders?
(a) When he marries.
(b) After one child is circumcised.
(c) When he owns a house.
(d) After two children are circumcised.

3. What does the father teach his son about plants and roots?
(a) Which ones are poisonous.
(b) Which ones have magic power.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The names and uses.

4. For what is the man's hut used?
(a) Sleeping and greeting visitors.
(b) Family gatherings.
(c) Storing weapons and living.
(d) Religious ceremonies.

5. What do the fathers teach their young sons?
(a) How to weed and use a digging stick.
(b) How to fish.
(c) How to build a hut.
(d) How to fight with the Gikuyu weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?

2. What does Kenyatta fear about western education?

3. What are the young taught?

4. Of the animals who ran away, which were chosen to be defenders of the forests?

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

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