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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 think the European teacher coming to Africa should do?
(a) Be circumcised.
(b) Set up western schools.
(c) Share their knowledge of other subjects.
(d) Learn the Gikuyu way.

2. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.
(a) "Fools."
(b) "Dreamers."
(c) "Agitators."
(d) "Stupid natives."

3. What were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?
(a) They should pattern themselves after the Europeans.
(b) Might is right.
(c) Africa has no future.
(d) The black man is inferior.

4. What are taught as underlying principles of Gikuyu education?
(a) How to make weapons and pottery.
(b) How to be agriculturists.
(c) Familial relations, living and dead and age groupings.
(d) Tribal legends.

5. What food is used to feed women after childbirth?
(a) Millet.
(b) Tree peas.
(c) Rice.
(d) Beans.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Kenyatta delegated to present the Gikuyu point of view with regard to land matters to the Secretary of State for the Colonies?

2. What is the Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?

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

4. How many stages of eldership did Kenyatta pass

5. What quote from William James was in the Introduction to the book?

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