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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 is the school in the Gikuyu nation?
(a) The outdoors.
(b) The home.
(c) Mt. Kenya.
(d) A special hut.

2. When does a junior warrior become a senior warrior?
(a) Twelve rain seasons after his weapons are blessed.
(b) After he marries more than five women.
(c) After he make his own weapons.
(d) After he takes part in a battle.

3. How do the Masai regard cultivation of the soil?
(a) As a way to train their children.
(b) As an occupation.
(c) As a major source of food supply.
(d) As a crime against their gods.

4. How long does it take to build a Gikuyu hut?
(a) A week.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Three days.
(d) A day.

5. What was the short name of the famous medicine man of the Gikuyu who prophesied the coming of Europeans with guns?
(a) Luku.
(b) Mogo.
(c) Giku.
(d) Wama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls and their sponsors do in the hut on the day of circumcision?

2. How many women are Gikuyu men allowed to marry?

3. Who leads the initiates to the homestead?

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

5. What does Kenyatta fear about western education?

(see the answer key)

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