Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Muhammad Yunus
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Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Muhammad Yunus
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Stool Makers of Jobra Village.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Yunus begins to define poverty, what does he discover is left out of most definitions of the poor?
(a) The homeless.
(b) Farm workers.
(c) The elderly.
(d) Women and children.

2. What is the name of the middlemen that Sufiaya Begum has to go through to get her bamboo?
(a) Poyshas.
(b) Paikars.
(c) Takas.
(d) Purdahs.

3. What is Yunus's favorite American television show to watch during his first summer in the U.S.?
(a) I Love Lucy.
(b) 60 Minutes.
(c) Hogan's Heroes.
(d) Gilligan's Island.

4. What does Yunus reluctantly agree to do in order to get the first government loans for the people of Jobra village?
(a) Become an officer of the bank.
(b) Guarantee the loans.
(c) Move into the village.
(d) Quit teaching.

5. Where did Yunus's Bengali friend, Mohiuddin Alamgir, just graduate from at the time of the demonstration in Washington D.C.?
(a) Vanderbilt University,
(b) Chittagong University.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the population in Bangladesh could not read or write in the late 1970s?

2. What does the name of the farmers' cooperative experiment in Jobra, "Nabajug," mean?

3. In the world of development, Yunus believes that programs combine the poor and non-poor to the benefit of whom?

4. In what year was the Bangladesh War of Liberation?

5. How many children are born into Yunus's family?

(see the answer key)

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