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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Expanding Beyond Jobra into Tangail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of loans does Yunus want to go to women in his initial bank experiment?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

2. What is the name of the capital city of Bangladesh?
(a) Tangail.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) Chittagong.
(d) Jobra.

3. What kind of business does Yunus begin in the early 1960s?
(a) An economics program for children.
(b) Shoe factory.
(c) Packaging and printing plant.
(d) A bank.

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

5. Where does Yunus go first to study in the United States?
(a) University of Colorado.
(b) University of Tennessee.
(c) Vanderbilt University.
(d) University of Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Yunus begins to define poverty, what does he discover is left out of most definitions of the poor?

2. How much are all support group members required to deposit into a group fund?

3. How much does each member of the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee donate to the committee fund?

4. Where is the famous economics professor, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen from?

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

(see the answer key)

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