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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the second Royal Commission on land tenure?
(a) British-Gikuyu Royal Commission.
(b) Joint Committee on the Closer Union of East Africa.
(c) Nairobi Royal Commission.
(d) Royal Committee of Kenya.

2. How does Mr. Kenyatta present the facts?
(a) With anger.
(b) Sorrowfully.
(c) Objectively without feeling.
(d) With great passion.

3. What united people in Africa against Western influence, above all against Great Britain and the United States?
(a) The arrogance of Great Britain and the US.
(b) The interference of Great Britain and the US.
(c) The intolerance shown by Great Britain and the US.
(d) The mismanagement of the "Chinese incident."

4. As a member of the warrior class, with what other tribe's warfare methods did Kenyatta become acquainted?
(a) The Masai.
(b) The Tigoni.
(c) The Mau Mau.
(d) The Mogani.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the Gikuyu live as squatters on farms on European land?

2. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.

3. What was Kenyatta's grandfather?

4. What position did Kenyatta hold in the Gikuyu Central Association?

5. Which animals are the most valuable to the Gikuyus?

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