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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the managing director of the Bangladesh Agriculature Bank tell Yunus are failing the country?
(a) Academics.
(b) Bankers.
(c) Villagers.
(d) Politicians.

3. As Yunus begins the loan program in Jobra village, who does he initially designate to collect the loan payments?
(a) Yunus.
(b) A student.
(c) The stool maker.
(d) The pan seller.

4. What does Yunus's father not like about being in business?
(a) Running a factory.
(b) Getting loans.
(c) Navigating politics.
(d) Making speeches.

5. When members of the support groups are finally approved to have a loan, how much is the initial loan asked for in the 1980s?
(a) $75.
(b) $1000.
(c) $100.
(d) $25.

6. What percentage of ownership does Grameen Bank have when their arrangement with the Bangladesh government is restructured?
(a) Forty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Twenty-five.

7. What is the name of the middlemen that Sufiaya Begum has to go through to get her bamboo?
(a) Purdahs.
(b) Poyshas.
(c) Takas.
(d) Paikars.

8. What year does Yunus begin to teach at Middle Tennessee State University?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1970.

9. What year does Yunus return to Bangladesh after teaching in Tennessee?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1970.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Tangail District is in the throes of a warlike situation with an underground ____________ movement.
(a) Communist.
(b) Military.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Democratic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Boy Scout leader who had a strong influence on Yunus?

2. How many of Yunus's siblings die in infancy?

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

4. What is the population of Chittagong?

5. How much does the bamboo cost that Sufiaya Begum has to buy to make her stools?

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