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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Pilot Project is Born.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Yunus's mother?
(a) Dula Mia.
(b) Sofia Khatun.
(c) Bishad Shindhu.
(d) Moharran Karbala.

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

3. In the world of development, Yunus believes that programs combine the poor and non-poor to the benefit of whom?
(a) Poor.
(b) Government.
(c) Aid agencies.
(d) Non-poor.

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

5. 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) Time.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year does Yunus return to Bangladesh after teaching in Tennessee?

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

3. How much in total does Yunus discover the poverty stricken people of Jobra need to make their own products?

4. When members of the support groups are finally approved to have a loan, how much is the initial loan asked for in the 1980s?

5. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the success of the loan support groups within Yunus's program?

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