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

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

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

4. What year does Yunus begin to teach at Middle Tennessee State University?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1970.

5. What does the government bank manager say is the biggest problem with loaning money to the poor people of Bangladesh?
(a) Government permission.
(b) Worthy enterprises.
(c) Available funds.
(d) Loan documents.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Yunus when his mother's behavior begins to change?

3. As Yunus visits the embassies of other countries throughout Washington D.C., they all ask if Bangladesh has a _____________.

4. What drags on for a very long time in Bangladesh in 1974?

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

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