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

2. What is the population of Chittagong?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 600,000.
(d) 8 million.

3. What is the name of the leader of the Pakistan partition movement?
(a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
(b) Ali Zindabad.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Lord Louis Mountbatten.

4. What year does Yunus return to Bangladesh after teaching in Tennessee?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1970.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business does Yunus begin in the early 1960s?

2. Where did Yunus's Bengali friend, Mohiuddin Alamgir, just graduate from at the time of the demonstration in Washington D.C.?

3. What year did Yunus's mother die?

4. Chittagong is what kind of city?

5. What major war is going on while Yunus is getting his Ph.D. in America?

(see the answer key)

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