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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 is the name of the largest government bank in Bangladesh?
(a) Bank of Bangladesh.
(b) Agricultural Bank.
(c) Grameen Bank.
(d) Janata Bank.

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

3. What is the name of the Muslim custom that keeps married women in seclusion?
(a) Purdah.
(b) Taka.
(c) Poysha.
(d) Paikar.

4. Where is the official from that Yunus stays with in Washington D.C. when he is representing the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee?
(a) Bengali Embassy.
(b) Pakistan Embassy.
(c) Bangladesh Embassy.
(d) India Embassy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Boy Scout leader who had a strong influence on Yunus?

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

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

4. How much profit does Sufiaya Begum make on selling her bamboo stools?

5. What does the name of the farmers' cooperative experiment in Jobra, "Nabajug," mean?

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