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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Economic Life and Industries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position did Kenyatta hold in the Gikuyu Central Association?
(a) Treasurer.
(b) Vice-president.
(c) President.
(d) General Secretary.

2. What is the value of a bull or ox in terms of sheep or goats.
(a) Five sheep or goats.
(b) Seven sheep or goats.
(c) Six sheep or goats.
(d) Four sheep or goats.

3. How many of the Gikuyu live as squatters on farms on European land?
(a) 110,000,
(b) 75,000.
(c) 105,000.
(d) 95,000.

4. How long does a well built hut usually last?
(a) Seven or more years.
(b) Five or more years.
(c) Ten or more years.
(d) One or more years.

5. During what years did Kenyatta start and edit the first Gikuyu journal?
(a) 1928-1930.
(b) 1927-1932.
(c) 1930-1935.
(d) 1925-1928.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?

2. Of the animals who ran away, which were chosen to be defenders of the forests?

3. Kenyatta gave evidence before the Morris Carter Kenya Land Commission in London in what year?

4. Which class helped Mr. Kenyatta become an excellent ethnographer?

5. How does Mr. Kenyatta present the facts?

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