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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. When did Kenyatta learn about a new religious cult?
(a) 1927-28.
(b) 1930-31.
(c) 1928-29.
(d) 1932-33.

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

3. What does Mr. Kenyatta recognize which is all important?
(a) The danger of fame and fortune.
(b) His lack of education.
(c) The danger of his own bias.
(d) His love of the European culture.

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

5. What quote from William James was in the Introduction to the book?
(a) "Progress is a terrible thing."
(b) "Intuition is more important than mere facts,:
(c) "Beware of ethnic prejudice."
(d) "Beware of anthropologists."

Short Answer Questions

1. Between which two countries was the African railway built?

2. During what years did Kenyatta start and edit the first Gikuyu journal?

3. What is the study of the German people by German scholars called?

4. What is the mother's brother called?

5. What was the condition that the nine men had to agree to if they wanted to marry Gikuyu's daughters?

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