A Reason That the Madagascar Project to Increase Rice Production

question 21

Multiple Choice

A reason that the Madagascar project to increase rice production was successful is that

• A)Malagasy leaders were of the peasantry, or had strong ties to it, and therefore were 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 therefore 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)it took into account that native forms of social organization inevitably break 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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