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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the people living in the forests build their homes?
(a) In the trees.
(b) On the plain.
(c) Underground.
(d) In ckearings.

2. How long does a well built hut usually last?
(a) One or more years.
(b) Five or more years.
(c) Ten or more years.
(d) Seven or more years.

3. What was the founder of the Gikuyu tribe called?
(a) Mogai.
(b) Moombi.
(c) Mombassa.
(d) Mowgli.

4. What were the people who lived in the forests called?
(a) Ndorobo.
(b) Masai.
(c) Gumba.
(d) Aathi.

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

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

7. What does a Gikuyu woman call the parcel of land she is allowed to cultivate?
(a) My earth.
(b) My garden.
(c) My property.
(d) My land.

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

9. What is the study of the German people by German scholars called?
(a) Deutsche Gechichte.
(b) Volkskunde.
(c) Studium des deutchen Volkes.
(d) Taegliches Leben des deutschen Volkes.

10. From what month to what month is the season of the big rain In Gikuyuland?
(a) From July to early October.
(b) From October to January.
(c) From May to August.
(d) From March to July.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What united people in Africa against Western influence, above all against Great Britain and the United States?

2. 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?

3. What kind of charcoal has a particular value in smelting iron?

4. What is the worst thing a Gikuyu man can do to infuriate another?

5. How do the Masai regard cultivation of the soil?

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