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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people need in order to borrow money from the government bank in Bangladesh?
(a) References.
(b) Downpayments.
(c) Farmland.
(d) Collateral.

2. Yunus's father is a devout __________.
(a) Baptist.
(b) Hindu.
(c) Buddhist.
(d) Muslim.

3. By 1982, Grameen Bank has grown from 500 members to ______________.
(a) 28,000.
(b) 2800.
(c) 34,000.
(d) 3400.

4. What does Yunus want for his students who are working so hard on the Jobra loan experiment?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Awards.
(c) Academic credit.
(d) Compensation.

5. In the world of development, Yunus believes that programs combine the poor and non-poor to the benefit of whom?
(a) Government.
(b) Poor.
(c) Aid agencies.
(d) Non-poor.

6. How much does each member of the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee donate to the committee fund?
(a) $300.
(b) $2500.
(c) $100.
(d) $1000.

7. How many houses have Grameen loans helped build?
(a) 560,000.
(b) 5600.
(c) 56.
(d) 560.

8. What is the holy festival that Yunus attends in the fall of 1977?
(a) Jakat.
(b) Niribili.
(c) Ramadan.
(d) Eid-ul Fitr.

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

10. In what year does Yunus remarry?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1980.

11. Where is the famous economics professor, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen from?
(a) England.
(b) Romania.
(c) Russia.
(d) Bangladesh.

12. How many of Yunus's siblings die in infancy?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

13. One managing director of the Central Bank of Bangladesh things village life is being ruined by bank employees' use of what?
(a) Computers.
(b) Flashlights.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Scare tactics.

14. What is the population of Bangladesh?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 120 million.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 2 billion.

15. What kind of business does Yunus's father have?
(a) Mill.
(b) Farm.
(c) Bank.
(d) Jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1982, Yunus is determined that Grameen should be what?

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

3. Yunus decides to structure the loan repayment on a _________ basis for his loan program.

4. Yunus launches a project with his Chittagong University students to study what?

5. What percentage of the population in Bangladesh could not read or write in the late 1970s?

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