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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. What does Yunus learn from Professor Georgescu-Roegen that causes economics and life to be more complicated than they really are?
(a) Money.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Time.
(d) Arrogance.

2. What equipment does Yunus notice going unused in the fields of Jobra?
(a) Tubewell.
(b) Tractor.
(c) Plow.
(d) Sprinkler.

3. How many people does Yunus find in the village of Jobra that are in the same cycle of poverty like Sufiaya?
(a) Forty-two.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) Five.
(d) Fourteen.

4. Yunus's father is a devout __________.
(a) Buddhist.
(b) Hindu.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Muslim.

5. Yunus launches a project with his Chittagong University students to study what?
(a) Farm yields.
(b) Money lending.
(c) Jobra's economy.
(d) Jobra's people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Muslim custom that keeps married women in seclusion?

2. What is the population of Chittagong?

3. What is the name of the children's magazine that Yunus and his brother cleverly get for free?

4. How many of Yunus's siblings die in infancy?

5. What year did Pakistan partition from India?

(see the answer key)

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