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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 kind of charcoal has a particular value in smelting iron?
(a) Banana charcoal.
(b) Palm charcoal.
(c) Beobab charcoal.
(d) Pine tree charcoal.

2. What is the approximate population of the Gikuyu country?
(a) A half a million.
(b) One million.
(c) One and a half million.
(d) Two million.

3. What is the value of a bull or ox in terms of sheep or goats.
(a) Four sheep or goats.
(b) Five sheep or goats.
(c) Six sheep or goats.
(d) Seven sheep or goats.

4. How high should the crops be when weeding is begun?
(a) About 7 inches.
(b) About 4 or 5 inches.
(c) About 2 or 3 inches.
(d) About 6 inches.

5. What kind of games do the young Gikuyu play?
(a) Climbing trees.
(b) Pretend fighting and house.
(c) Hide and Go Seek.
(d) Singing songs.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Into how many administrative districts is the Gikuyu territory divided?

5. How does one say my or our mother in Gikuyu?

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