Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and context:

One day in 1976, Professor Muhammad Yunus (a) ______ (visit) a poor village near Chittagong University. He (b) _____ (meet) a poor woman who made bamboo stools for a living. Although she (c) _____ (work) hard, she (d) _______ (remain) poor because she (e) ______ (force) to pay a high price for the bamboo. She did not have enough money (f) ______ (buy) the bamboo and used to (g) ____ (take) loans from the moneylenders on an exorbitant interest. Professor Yunus (h) _____ (know) that he could not simply (i) _______ (give) her the money she needed because it (j) _______ (rob) the woman of her dignity. Instead, he (k) _______ (ask) the people in the village how much money they (l) ______ (need) to start their own business and free themselves from poverty. He (m) _______ (lend) the equivalent of about US$27-00 from his pocket to 42 women of the village. Those women (n) _______ (set) up their small business and started to earn money to support their families.