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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tribal Origin and Kinship System and The Gikuyu System of Land Tenure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a moherega?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Gikuyu of the warrior class.
(d) Gikuyu clan.

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

3. During what years did Kenyatta start and edit the first Gikuyu journal?
(a) 1927-1932.
(b) 1928-1930.
(c) 1925-1928.
(d) 1930-1935.

4. What is the mother's brother called?
(a) Loopi.
(b) Unka.
(c) Mama.
(d) Oono.

5. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?
(a) The iron dragon.
(b) The big noise.
(c) The iron snake.
(d) The steel caterpillar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the people who lived in the forests called?

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

3. Where did the people living in the forests build their homes?

4. Under what kind of tree did Gikuyu and his family find nine young men to marry Gikuyu's daughters?

5. What qualities does Mr. Kenyatta display which are rare among students of social science?

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