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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the prophesy of the Gikuyu medicine man, what was the color of the bodies of the men who were to come out of the big water?
(a) The color of a small light-colored frog living in water.
(b) The color of light-colored fish.
(c) The color of white leopards.
(d) The color of white butterflies.

4. What united people in Africa against Western influence, above all against Great Britain and the United States?
(a) The arrogance of Great Britain and the US.
(b) The intolerance shown by Great Britain and the US.
(c) The mismanagement of the "Chinese incident."
(d) The interference of Great Britain and the US.

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

6. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?
(a) The steel caterpillar.
(b) The big noise.
(c) The iron snake.
(d) The iron dragon.

7. What quote from William James was in the Introduction to the book?
(a) "Progress is a terrible thing."
(b) "Beware of ethnic prejudice."
(c) "Intuition is more important than mere facts,:
(d) "Beware of anthropologists."

8. What does Mr. Kenyatta recognize which is all important?
(a) His love of the European culture.
(b) The danger of his own bias.
(c) His lack of education.
(d) The danger of fame and fortune.

9. How many stages of eldership did Kenyatta pass
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

10. What do the Gikuyu call their grandmother?
(a) Baba.
(b) Coco.
(c) Mamba.
(d) Lolo.

11. How did the Gikuyu lose most of their lands?
(a) Through fighting with the Europeans.
(b) Through selling their land to the Europeans.
(c) Through their magnanimity.
(d) Through deserting their lands and moving southward.

12. What was Kenyatta's grandfather?
(a) An elder.
(b) A hunter and a farmer.
(c) A warrior.
(d) A seer and a magician.

13. Where was the resting place of the Divider of the Universe, the creator of the Gikuyu tribe?
(a) In the jungles of Kenya.
(b) Mt. Kenya.
(c) Beside Victoria Falls.
(d) Mt. Kilimanjaro.

14. What were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?
(a) They should pattern themselves after the Europeans.
(b) Africa has no future.
(c) Might is right.
(d) The black man is inferior.

15. During what years did the Hilton Young Commission on land tenure take place?
(a) 1927-28.
(b) 1930-31.
(c) 1931-33.
(d) 1928-29.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Kenyatta act as interpreter to in his big land case?

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

3. During what years did Kenyatta start and edit the first Gikuyu journal?

4. What is the key to the life of the Gikuyu?

5. Where did Kenyatta live when he was learning the methods of warfare?

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