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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Marriage System and The Gikuyu System of Government.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys and girls do after the location of the surgery is blessed and ancestral spirits appeased?
(a) They go to the same tree.
(b) They eat a special food.
(c) They dance in a circle.
(d) They kneel and pray to their ancestors.

2. What was the name of the first governmental group?
(a) Nogami generation .
(b) Ndemi generation.
(c) Kolugi generation.
(d) Gikuyu generation..

3. In what year was the big land case brought before the Supreme Court in Nairobi?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1921.

4. When is a Gikuyu man initiated into the religious and sacrificial council?
(a) When two of his daughters marry.
(b) When three of his sons become warriors.
(c) When his wife is past child-bearing age.
(d) When he becomes an elder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day is the woman admitted into the husband's clan?

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

3. At what age is a Gikuyu child circumcised?

4. When is a man initiated into the council of peace?

5. What was the name of the second Royal Commission on land tenure?

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