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

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

3. In what year was Kenyatta delegated to present the Gikuyu point of view with regard to land matters to the Secretary of State for the Colonies?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1925.

4. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?
(a) To follow an old tribal custom.
(b) To build up the numbers of tribe members.
(c) To prove their virility.
(d) To force a change to a patriarchal society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Gikuyu call their grandmother?

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

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

4. 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?

5. In what part of Kenya does the country of the Gikuyu lie?

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