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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An independent investigator finds what percentage of CARD members use their loans for income-generating activities?
(a) 70 percent.
(b) 97 percent.
(c) 27 percent.
(d) 4 percent.

2. At an annual workshop held by the Grameen Bank in 1982, what proposal is drawn up?
(a) Ten Decisions.
(b) Laws of Grameen.
(c) Survival Rules.
(d) Rules of Prosperity.

3. What is Grameen Check?
(a) Line of credit for craftsmen.
(b) Line of hand-woven fabric.
(c) Check writing service.
(d) Money wiring service.

4. What do the words mean in title of the program, Ahon Sa Hirop, started by Dr. Generoso Octavio?
(a) A rise from the dirt.
(b) A rise from the Ashes.
(c) Away from poverty.
(d) Rise above poverty.

5. In what year does Grameen receive a cellular phone license?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2001.

6. The Grameen replication program called the Landless People's Fund of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development is established in which country?
(a) Philippines.
(b) Malaysia.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) China.

7. What international aid agency is Yunus particularly critical of?
(a) United Nations.
(b) UNICEF.
(c) World Bank.
(d) Habitat for Humanity.

8. Grameen Bank provides housing loans at what interest rate?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 5 percent.
(d) 8 percent.

9. By the end of the book, what percentage of Grameen Bank does Bangladeshi government own?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ninety.
(d) Ten.

10. What is the name of the fisheries project Grameen takes on?
(a) Pabna.
(b) Nimgachi.
(c) Bogra.
(d) Serajganj.

11. Yunus argues that World Bank policies affect who the most?
(a) Old poor.
(b) Investors.
(c) New poor.
(d) Farmers.

12. How many total branches does the Grameen Bank have by the end of the book?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 1,181.
(c) 180,000.
(d) 1,100.

13. As GrameenPhone is launched, Bangladesh has one phone per _______ inhabitants.
(a) 300.
(b) 250.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 5000.

14. Grameen goes against traditional methods of poverty alleviation by not providing what?
(a) Skills training.
(b) Ample loans.
(c) Bank contacts.
(d) Group support.

15. UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries found that the birth rate falls as _______________.
(a) Men gain wealth.
(b) Governments limit family size.
(c) Women gain equality.
(d) Women are kept submissive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American group gives the first funding for the Grameen Trust?

2. How many ponds does the fisheries project consist of by 1988?

3. The first Microcredit Summit was held in what year?

4. There is a long tradition of what craft that was once in high demand in Bangladesh?

5. What does the first volunteer who raises her hand in Pine Bluff, Arkansas tell Yunus she wants a loan for?

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