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

2. Where did the people living in the forests build their homes?
(a) In the trees.
(b) Underground.
(c) On the plain.
(d) In ckearings.

3. Where was the resting place of the Divider of the Universe, the creator of the Gikuyu tribe?
(a) In the jungles of Kenya.
(b) Beside Victoria Falls.
(c) Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(d) Mt. Kenya.

4. At what age is the first stage of Gikuyu youth marked?
(a) Six or seven years old.
(b) Eight years old.
(c) Four or five years old.
(d) Three or four years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?

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

3. What food is used to feed women after childbirth?

4. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.

5. What is the busiest time for the majority of the women?

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