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

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

3. 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.

4. Where did the people living in the forests build their homes?
(a) In ckearings.
(b) Underground.
(c) On the plain.
(d) In the trees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Gikuyu lose most of their lands?

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

3. What is the study of the German people by German scholars called?

4. What was the short name of the famous medicine man of the Gikuyu who prophesied the coming of Europeans with guns?

5. During what years did Kenyatta start and edit the first Gikuyu journal?

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