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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many of Yunus's siblings die in infancy?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

5. Yunus tells the managing director of the Bangladesh Agriculture Bank that he has no interest in becoming what?
(a) A banker.
(b) A rich man.
(c) A poor man.
(d) A lifetime pofessor.

6. What is the name of the Muslim custom that keeps married women in seclusion?
(a) Purdah.
(b) Taka.
(c) Poysha.
(d) Paikar.

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

8. What drags on for a very long time in Bangladesh in 1974?
(a) War.
(b) Civil unrest.
(c) Floods.
(d) Famine.

9. What is the name of the brother that attended the Lamar Bazar Free Primary School with Yunus?
(a) Salam.
(b) Banik.
(c) Shumar.
(d) Bishad.

10. Yunus decides to structure the loan repayment on a _________ basis for his loan program.
(a) Weekly.
(b) Annual.
(c) Daily.
(d) Monthly.

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

12. What does Yunus make for demonstration in Washington D.C.?
(a) Flags.
(b) Petitions.
(c) Uniforms.
(d) Festoons.

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

14. What do the farmers in Jobra agree to do for Yunus's initial university study?
(a) Plant soybeans.
(b) Leave their fields fallow.
(c) Plant low-yeilding rice.
(d) Plant high-yeilding rice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the government bank manager say is the biggest problem with loaning money to the poor people of Bangladesh?

2. What kind of business does Yunus's father have?

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

4. Yunus launches a project with his Chittagong University students to study what?

5. Where did Yunus's Bengali friend, Mohiuddin Alamgir, just graduate from at the time of the demonstration in Washington D.C.?

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