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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. In what year was the big land case brought before the Supreme Court in Nairobi?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1923.

2. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?
(a) The Masai.
(b) The pygmies.
(c) The Watusi.
(d) The Ndorobo.

3. Between which two countries was the African railway built?
(a) Uganda-Kenya.
(b) Ethiopia-Uganda.
(c) Rwanda-Kenya.
(d) Kenya-Cairo.

4. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?
(a) To prove their virility.
(b) To build up the numbers of tribe members.
(c) To force a change to a patriarchal society.
(d) To follow an old tribal custom.

5. Under what kind of tree did Gikuyu and his family find nine young men to marry Gikuyu's daughters?
(a) Fig tree.
(b) Banana tree.
(c) Lemon tree.
(d) Banyan tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Gikuyu children gain physical strength?

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

3. What do the girls and their sponsors do in the hut on the day of circumcision?

4. What is riika?

5. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?

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