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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days of training do all support group members have to complete to be accepted into Yunus's program?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

2. Chittagong is what kind of city?
(a) Seaport.
(b) Mountain outpost.
(c) Small industrial.
(d) Rural farmland.

3. How many branches does the Grameen Bank open each year throughout the 1980s?
(a) 100.
(b) 1000.
(c) 250.
(d) 25.

4. What is Yunus's favorite American television show to watch during his first summer in the U.S.?
(a) Gilligan's Island.
(b) I Love Lucy.
(c) 60 Minutes.
(d) Hogan's Heroes.

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

6. In what year does a new Finance Minister restructure the ownership agreement Grameen Bank had with the Bangladesh government?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1995.

7. Yunus launches a project with his Chittagong University students to study what?
(a) Jobra's economy.
(b) Money lending.
(c) Farm yields.
(d) Jobra's people.

8. Yunus develops an ownership proposal where the Bangladesh government will own what percentage of Grameen?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Seventy-five.

9. Upon his return to Bangladesh, Yunus takes a position with the government's _________________.
(a) Planning Commission.
(b) Ruling party.
(c) Banking system.
(d) Parliament.

10. What is the name of the capital city of Bangladesh?
(a) Tangail.
(b) Chittagong.
(c) Jobra.
(d) Dhaka.

11. How much profit does Sufiaya Begum make on selling her bamboo stools?
(a) Twenty-two cents.
(b) Two cents.
(c) Twenty-five dollars.
(d) Five dollars.

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

13. How many Bengalis are in the Nashville area at the time that Yunus forms the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee?
(a) Six.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Twleve.
(d) Fourteen.

14. Which of the following is NOT an interest of the young Yunus?
(a) Stamps.
(b) Photography.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Movies.

15. What major war is going on while Yunus is getting his Ph.D. in America?
(a) The Vietman War.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Gulf War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the famous economics professor, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen from?

2. What year does the Grameen Bank receive the Aga Khan International Award for Architecture?

3. What scholarship for a Ph.D is Yunus offered in 1965?

4. What is on the Grameen logo designed by Yunus?

5. What is the name of the brother that attended the Lamar Bazar Free Primary School with Yunus?

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