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

2. Into how many administrative districts is the Gikuyu territory divided?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

3. What is riika?
(a) Initiation of a girl.
(b) Age-grading among the Gikuyu.
(c) Group of Gikuyu elders.
(d) Initiation of a boy.

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

5. Kenyatta gave evidence before the Morris Carter Kenya Land Commission in London in what year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?

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

3. Under what kind of tree did Gikuyu and his family find nine young men to marry Gikuyu's daughters?

4. The first seeds of the new historical demoralization were planted by ___________.

5. How does one say my or our mother in Gikuyu?

(see the answer key)

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