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

2. In the prophesy of the Gikuyu medicine man, what was the color of the bodies of the men who were to come out of the big water?
(a) The color of a small light-colored frog living in water.
(b) The color of white leopards.
(c) The color of white butterflies.
(d) The color of light-colored fish.

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

4. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?
(a) The Masai.
(b) The Ndorobo.
(c) The pygmies.
(d) The Watusi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the founder of the Gikuyu tribe called?

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

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

4. What has become the attitude of modern social science?

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

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