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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Beyond Micro-credit: A New World of Grameen Enterprises.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the largest government bank in Bangladesh?
(a) Agricultural Bank.
(b) Bank of Bangladesh.
(c) Grameen Bank.
(d) Janata Bank.

2. What percentage of loans does Yunus want to go to women in his initial bank experiment?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

3. How much are all support group members required to deposit into a group fund?
(a) Five dollars from each loan.
(b) Ten dollars from each loan.
(c) Ten percent of each loan.
(d) Five percent of each loan.

4. What percentage of the population in Bangladesh could not read or write in the late 1970s?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) 40 percent.

5. What year does the Grameen Bank receive the Aga Khan International Award for Architecture?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Yunus begins to define poverty, what does he discover is left out of most definitions of the poor?

2. How much does each member of the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee donate to the committee fund?

3. What does the name of the farmers' cooperative experiment in Jobra, "Nabajug," mean?

4. Where is the official from that Yunus stays with in Washington D.C. when he is representing the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee?

5. Who do Arkansas state officials first introduce Yunus to in the preliminary steps of finding Grameen borrowers?

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