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

2. What is the Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?
(a) Gnwinko.
(b) Ngweko.
(c) Thingira.
(d) Nogwinka.

3. What is the mbari or nyomba?
(a) Hut of a male Gikuyu.
(b) Witch doctor.
(c) Hut of a female Gikuyu.
(d) Family group.

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

5. 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 light-colored fish.
(b) The color of white leopards.
(c) The color of white butterflies.
(d) The color of a small light-colored frog living in water.

Short Answer Questions

1. A man who owns a hut is referred to as __________.

2. At what age is a Gikuyu child circumcised?

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

4. What was the short name of the famous medicine man of the Gikuyu who prophesied the coming of Europeans with guns?

5. For what is the man's hut used?

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