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

2. Where is the famous economics professor, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen from?
(a) Romania.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

3. In what year was the Bangladesh War of Liberation?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1982.

4. What do the farmers in Jobra agree to do for Yunus's initial university study?
(a) Plant low-yeilding rice.
(b) Leave their fields fallow.
(c) Plant soybeans.
(d) Plant high-yeilding rice.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What scholarship for a Ph.D is Yunus offered in 1965?

5. How much does the bamboo cost that Sufiaya Begum has to buy to make her stools?

(see the answer key)

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