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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 was the name of Gikuyu's wife?
(a) Malinbi.
(b) Mombooli.
(c) Mikuji.
(d) Moombi.

2. What were the people who lived in the forests called?
(a) Masai.
(b) Ndorobo.
(c) Gumba.
(d) Aathi.

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

4. What is the worst thing a Gikuyu man can do to infuriate another?
(a) Sleep with his wife.
(b) Get the witchdoctor to cast a spell on him.
(c) Insult his mother.
(d) Spit on him.

5. Between which two countries was the African railway built?
(a) Kenya-Cairo.
(b) Rwanda-Kenya.
(c) Ethiopia-Uganda.
(d) Uganda-Kenya.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the author's credentials written in a book?

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

3. What was the name of Kenyatta's aunt who performed the initiation operation on Gikuyu girls?

4. Which class helped Mr. Kenyatta become an excellent ethnographer?

5. What was Kenyatta's grandfather?

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