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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 founder of the Gikuyu tribe called?
(a) Mowgli.
(b) Moombi.
(c) Mogai.
(d) Mombassa.

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

3. What is the father of a Gikuyu family called?
(a) Simba.
(b) Gikoo.
(c) Gooyi.
(d) Baba.

4. 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) Royal Committee of Kenya.
(d) Nairobi Royal Commission.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the big land case brought before the Supreme Court in Nairobi?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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