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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1982, Yunus is determined that Grameen should be what?
(a) An independent bank.
(b) A government program.
(c) Privately owned.
(d) Publically owned.

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

3. How many times does the Grameen Bank apply for permission from the Central Bank to offer housing loans?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

4. What does the name of the farmers' cooperative experiment in Jobra, "Nabajug," mean?
(a) More food.
(b) New era.
(c) Next year.
(d) Hard work.

5. Where does Yunus go first to study in the United States?
(a) Vanderbilt University.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Tennessee.
(d) University of Colorado.

6. What is the name of Yunus's father?
(a) Dula Mia.
(b) Bishad Shindhu.
(c) Sofia Khatun.
(d) Moharran Karbala.

7. What are mahajons in Bangladesh?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Factory workers.
(c) Rich bankers.
(d) Moneylenders.

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

9. Yunus's experiment with the village of Jobra convinces him to focus on what?
(a) Small land owners.
(b) Children.
(c) Farm workers.
(d) Landless poor.

10. Yunus, even from a young age, has always thought of himself as what?
(a) A banker.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A reformer.
(d) An economist.

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

12. As Yunus begins his university study, he finds that economists rarely reflect on the origin and development of ___________.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Faminie.
(d) Banks.

13. What does Yunus reluctantly agree to do in order to get the first government loans for the people of Jobra village?
(a) Move into the village.
(b) Become an officer of the bank.
(c) Quit teaching.
(d) Guarantee the loans.

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

15. Yunus's mother tells him the story of _____________.
(a) Hussan and Hussein.
(b) Bishad Shindhu.
(c) Dula Mia.
(d) Khatan and Karbala.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Yunus make for demonstration in Washington D.C.?

3. How many houses have Grameen loans helped build?

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

5. How many people does Yunus find in the village of Jobra that are in the same cycle of poverty like Sufiaya?

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