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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the key to the life of the Gikuyu?
(a) Land tenure.
(b) Ceremonies.
(c) Warfare practices.
(d) Magic.

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

3. What is the approximate population of the Gikuyu country?
(a) One and a half million.
(b) One million.
(c) A half a million.
(d) Two million.

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

5. What is the mbari or nyomba?
(a) Family group.
(b) Hut of a female Gikuyu.
(c) Witch doctor.
(d) Hut of a male Gikuyu.

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

7. What is the mother's brother called?
(a) Mama.
(b) Oono.
(c) Loopi.
(d) Unka.

8. A man who owns a hut is referred to as __________.
(a) A wealthy man.
(b) A father.
(c) A married man.
(d) An elder.

9. From whom did the Gikuyu buy grain?
(a) The Wakamba.
(b) The Gumba.
(c) The Watusi.
(d) The Masai.

10. What is the value of a bull or ox in terms of sheep or goats.
(a) Seven sheep or goats.
(b) Four sheep or goats.
(c) Five sheep or goats.
(d) Six sheep or goats.

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

12. Which class helped Mr. Kenyatta become an excellent ethnographer?
(a) Discussion class in London.
(b) Economics class in Kenya.
(c) Anthropology class in Paris.
(d) Discussion class in Berlin.

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

14. Between which two countries was the African railway built?
(a) Uganda-Kenya.
(b) Rwanda-Kenya.
(c) Ethiopia-Uganda.
(d) Kenya-Cairo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food is used to feed women after childbirth?

2. What has become the attitude of modern social science?

3. What was the name of Gikuyu's wife?

4. To whom does Kenyatta write that he is indebted to concerning technical advice on anthropological points?

5. What was the name of Kenyatta's aunt who performed the initiation operation on Gikuyu girls?

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