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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 were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?
(a) Might is right.
(b) Africa has no future.
(c) They should pattern themselves after the Europeans.
(d) The black man is inferior.

2. What was the name of the chief who entered into a treaty with the Europeans and was then deported and died on his way to the coast?
(a) Kaigumbi.
(b) Kikumboo.
(c) Waiyaki
(d) Wukumbi.

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 kill a ram as a sacrifice.
(c) To undergo an immediate initiation operation.
(d) To live under a matriarchal system.

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

5. Under what kind of tree did Gikuyu and his family find nine young men to marry Gikuyu's daughters?
(a) Fig tree.
(b) Banana tree.
(c) Lemon tree.
(d) Banyan tree.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?

4. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?

5. What is the key to the life of the Gikuyu?

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