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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Yunus begins to teach at Chittagong University, what does he notice as he drives from his father's house every day?
(a) Barren fields.
(b) Lush fields.
(c) Thriving villagers.
(d) Dying villagers.

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

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

4. 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) 60 Minutes.
(d) I Love Lucy.

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

6. Chittagong is what kind of city?
(a) Small industrial.
(b) Rural farmland.
(c) Seaport.
(d) Mountain outpost.

7. 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) Harvard University.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) Vanderbilt University,

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

9. How many members does a support group need before any loans are made?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

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

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

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

13. What do people need in order to borrow money from the government bank in Bangladesh?
(a) References.
(b) Downpayments.
(c) Farmland.
(d) Collateral.

14. What is on the Grameen logo designed by Yunus?
(a) A cane.
(b) Five faces.
(c) A hut.
(d) Five hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business does Yunus begin in the early 1960s?

2. Yunus, even from a young age, has always thought of himself as what?

3. What year did Pakistan partition from India?

4. Where does Yunus go first to study in the United States?

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

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