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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Pakistan partition from India?

2. Yunus's experiment with the village of Jobra convinces him to focus on what?

3. What kind of business does Yunus begin in the early 1960s?

4. Yunus does not use lawyers or legal documents in his loan program because ___________ is an important component to the success of his bank.

5. What is the name of the leader of the Pakistan partition movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a dadan arrangement?

2. What happens in 1977 when Yunus visits a bank in Dhaka?

3. How does the Grameen Bank Project attract young people to its employ?

4. How does Yunus pay for the printing business he starts in the early 1960s?

5. What does Yunus do for money in his youth?

6. Describe Yunus's childhood home on Boxirhat Road.

7. What is the purpose of the Chittagong University Rural Development Project?

8. Why does Yunus decide to return to Bangladesh?

9. What is happening in Yunus's homeland in 1971 while he is in America?

10. What surprise does Yunus find in the final agreement from the government to help the Grameen Bank in 1983?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Muhammad Yunus's career as a teacher play a role in his becoming a banker to the poor? Discuss specific examples.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay based on this statement: "The more money we lent to poor women, the more I realized that credit given to a woman brings about change faster than when given to a man," (Chapter 5, pp. 71-72).

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the highs and lows experienced by Grameen in the 1990s.

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