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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) Beobab charcoal.
(c) Palm charcoal.
(d) Pine tree charcoal.

2. What is done to the girl's body prior to surgery?
(a) It is washed in the mother's hut.
(b) It is massaged and adorned with beads.
(c) It is blessed by the medicine man.
(d) It is painted with sacred colors.

3. From whom did the Gikuyu buy grain?
(a) The Wakamba.
(b) The Masai.
(c) The Gumba.
(d) The Watusi.

4. What is done the day before the circumcision operation?
(a) Feathers are put in the hair.
(b) A bracelet with bells is put around the ankle.
(c) The body is painted red and white.
(d) The head is shaved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Kenyatta's aunt who performed the initiation operation on Gikuyu girls?

2. How is the first stage of youth marked in the Gikuyu tribe?

3. What do the fathers teach their young sons?

4. What is the Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?

5. Between which two countries was the African railway built?

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