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

2. What is the population of Chittagong?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 600,000.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 8 million.

3. Most foreign aid given to developing countries goes toward what?
(a) Sanitation.
(b) Hunger relief.
(c) Infrastructure projects.
(d) Disease prevention.

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the success of the loan support groups within Yunus's program?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Intimidation.
(c) Competition.
(d) Incentives.

5. What American group gives the first funding for the Grameen Trust?
(a) Rockefeller Foundation.
(b) MacArthur Foundation.
(c) Microsoft.
(d) Ford Foundation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Bangladesh War of Liberation?

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

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

4. Yunus is going to be in America for three months in 1977 to attend ___________________.

5. When does Yunus tell Governor Clinton that he can start a Grameen program in Arkansas?

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