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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 the approximate population of the Gikuyu country?
(a) One and a half million.
(b) Two million.
(c) One million.
(d) A half a million.

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

3. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?
(a) To force a change to a patriarchal society.
(b) To build up the numbers of tribe members.
(c) To prove their virility.
(d) To follow an old tribal custom.

4. When the Europeans first came to Gikuyuland, how did the Gikuyu regard them?
(a) As conquerors.
(b) As interesting foreigners.
(c) As lonely wanderers.
(d) As dangerous enemies.

5. Kenyatta gave evidence before the Morris Carter Kenya Land Commission in London in what year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two men are responsible for undertaking the new drive in French folklore?

2. What is the worst thing a Gikuyu man can do to infuriate another?

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

4. The first seeds of the new historical demoralization were planted by ___________.

5. What is a moherega?

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