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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two men are responsible for undertaking the new drive in French folklore?
(a) Baudelaire and Saint Exupery.
(b) Riviere and Varagniac.
(c) Victor Hugo and Balzac.
(d) Proust and Lamartine.

2. How did the Gikuyus explain the relation of their tribe with the Europeans?
(a) With the story of a fox and a man.
(b) With a story about a Rhinoceros and a man.
(c) With a story about an elephant and a man.
(d) With a story about a lion with a man.

3. As a member of the warrior class, with what other tribe's warfare methods did Kenyatta become acquainted?
(a) The Mogani.
(b) The Masai.
(c) The Mau Mau.
(d) The Tigoni.

4. To whom did Kenyatta act as interpreter to in his big land case?
(a) Chief Lambata.
(b) Chief Kmaha.
(c) Chief Lundita.
(d) Chief Kioi.

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

6. In what part of Kenya does the country of the Gikuyu lie?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Central.

7. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?
(a) The Masai.
(b) The pygmies.
(c) The Ndorobo.
(d) The Watusi.

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

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

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

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

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

13. How many of the Gikuyu live as squatters on farms on European land?
(a) 95,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 105,000.
(d) 110,000,

14. What kind of charcoal has a particular value in smelting iron?
(a) Palm charcoal.
(b) Banana charcoal.
(c) Pine tree charcoal.
(d) Beobab charcoal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the author's credentials written in a book?

2. Why did the Gikuyu men get their wives pregnant all at the same time?

3. What is the Gkuyu word for witch doctor?

4. What quote from William James was in the Introduction to the book?

5. Where was the resting place of the Divider of the Universe, the creator of the Gikuyu tribe?

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