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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 Kenyatta delegated to present the Gikuyu point of view with regard to land matters to the Secretary of State for the Colonies?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1924.

2. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?
(a) A few years after the piercing of the outer ear.
(b) At seventeen years old.
(c) At twenty years old.
(d) At fifteen years old.

3. From what month to what month is the season of the big rain In Gikuyuland?
(a) From May to August.
(b) From July to early October.
(c) From March to July.
(d) From October to January.

4. What is iron beaten into a heap is called?
(a) Mondwa.
(b) Lowda.
(c) Kindwi.
(d) Kondwa.

5. The first seeds of the new historical demoralization were planted by ___________.
(a) Communism.
(b) Fraudulent Allied policies.
(c) Nazism.
(d) Fascism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the animals who ran away, which were chosen to be defenders of the forests?

2. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?

3. What is riika?

4. What are taught as underlying principles of Gikuyu education?

5. When did Kenyatta learn about a new religious cult?

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