Which of the Following Is a Reason That the Madagascar

question 54

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a reason that the Madagascar project to increase rice production was successful?

• A) Malagasy leaders were of the peasantry and were therefore prepared to follow the descent-group ethic of pooling resources for the good of the group as a whole.
• B) The elites and the lower class were of different origins and thus had no strong connections through kinship, descent, or marriage.
• C) There is a clear fit between capitalist development schemes and corporate descent-group social organization.
• D) The project took into account the inevitability of native forms of social organization breaking down into nuclear family organization, impersonality, and alienation.
• E) The educated members of Malagasy society are those who have struggled to fend for themselves and therefore brought an innovative kind of independence to the project.

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