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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) Arrogance.
(b) Time.
(c) Money.
(d) Ignorance.

2. What percentage of the population in Bangladesh could not read or write in the late 1970s?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 90 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

3. What year did Yunus's mother die?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1982.

4. Yunus's experiment with the village of Jobra convinces him to focus on what?
(a) Landless poor.
(b) Small land owners.
(c) Farm workers.
(d) Children.

5. What do people need in order to borrow money from the government bank in Bangladesh?
(a) Downpayments.
(b) Collateral.
(c) References.
(d) Farmland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the leader of the Pakistan partition movement?

2. What does Yunus make for demonstration in Washington D.C.?

3. What is the name of Yunus's mother?

4. When Yunus begins to teach at Chittagong University, what does he notice as he drives from his father's house every day?

5. Where is the famous economics professor, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen from?

(see the answer key)

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