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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. Where did Kenyatta live when he was learning the methods of warfare?
(a) Near Ngare Narok.
(b) In Nairobi.
(c) On the Serengeti plain.
(d) Near Mt. Kilimanjaro.

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

3. What was the condition that the nine men had to agree to if they wanted to marry Gikuyu's daughters?
(a) To go up to the top of Mt. Kenya and pray.
(b) To undergo an immediate initiation operation.
(c) To live under a matriarchal system.
(d) To kill a ram as a sacrifice.

4. Which class helped Mr. Kenyatta become an excellent ethnographer?
(a) Economics class in Kenya.
(b) Discussion class in Berlin.
(c) Discussion class in London.
(d) Anthropology class in Paris.

5. What is a moherega?
(a) Gikuyu clan.
(b) Gikuyu of the warrior class.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the people living in the forests build their homes?

2. What is the mother's brother called?

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

4. How did the Gikuyus explain the relation of their tribe with the Europeans?

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

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