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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. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.
(a) "Dreamers."
(b) "Fools."
(c) "Stupid natives."
(d) "Agitators."

2. How many men do Gikuyu women usually marry?
(a) Thirteen and fourteen.
(b) Two and three.
(c) Fifteen and twenty.
(d) Ten and twelve.

3. How do the mother and the nurse educate the very young?
(a) Through lullabies.
(b) Through stories.
(c) With toys.
(d) Through poems.

4. The first seeds of the new historical demoralization were planted by ___________.
(a) Communism.
(b) Fraudulent Allied policies.
(c) Nazism.
(d) Fascism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys and girls do after the location of the surgery is blessed and ancestral spirits appeased?

2. When can the Gikuyu people participate in the government?

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

4. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?

5. What does the boy do when he is accepted by the girl for marriage?

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