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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the current interest rate for Grameen loans?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 2 percent.
(d) 5 percent.

2. Yunus is going to be in America for three months in 1977 to attend ___________________.
(a) Harvard School of Business.
(b) The presidential inaugruation.
(c) The official reconigtion of Bangladesh.
(d) The UN General Assembly.

3. How many children are born into Yunus's family?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

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

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

6. What year did Pakistan partition from India?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1942.

7. 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.

8. What year did Yunus's mother die?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1989.

9. Where did Yunus's Bengali friend, Mohiuddin Alamgir, just graduate from at the time of the demonstration in Washington D.C.?
(a) Chittagong University.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) Vanderbilt University,
(d) Harvard University.

10. 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.

11. How many houses have Grameen loans helped build?
(a) 56.
(b) 5600.
(c) 560,000.
(d) 560.

12. Yunus does not use lawyers or legal documents in his loan program because ___________ is an important component to the success of his bank.
(a) Trust.
(b) Intimidation.
(c) Faith.
(d) Loan forgiveness.

13. What does Yunus learn from Professor Georgescu-Roegen that causes economics and life to be more complicated than they really are?
(a) Time.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Money.

14. What scholarship for a Ph.D is Yunus offered in 1965?
(a) Fulbright.
(b) Rhodes.
(c) Bengali National.
(d) Oxford.

15. In what year does Yunus remarry?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the managing director of the Bangladesh Agriculature Bank tell Yunus are failing the country?

2. In what year does a new Finance Minister restructure the ownership agreement Grameen Bank had with the Bangladesh government?

3. What is the name of the capital city of Bangladesh?

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

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

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