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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Yunus's favorite American television show to watch during his first summer in the U.S.?
(a) Hogan's Heroes.
(b) 60 Minutes.
(c) Gilligan's Island.
(d) I Love Lucy.

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

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

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

6. When does Yunus receive news of the government proclamation that the Grameen bank was born?
(a) December 1982.
(b) March 1984.
(c) September 1983.
(d) June 1985.

7. Where is the official from that Yunus stays with in Washington D.C. when he is representing the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee?
(a) Bengali Embassy.
(b) India Embassy.
(c) Bangladesh Embassy.
(d) Pakistan Embassy.

8. How much does the bamboo cost that Sufiaya Begum has to buy to make her stools?
(a) Twenty-five dollars.
(b) Five cents.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Twenty-two cents.

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

10. How many people does Yunus find in the village of Jobra that are in the same cycle of poverty like Sufiaya?
(a) Forty-two.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty-two.

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

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

13. How many branches does the Grameen Bank open each year throughout the 1980s?
(a) 100.
(b) 250.
(c) 1000.
(d) 25.

14. How much does each member of the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee donate to the committee fund?
(a) $100.
(b) $1000.
(c) $300.
(d) $2500.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the largest government bank in Bangladesh?

4. What percentage of the population in Bangladesh could not read or write in the late 1970s?

5. What do the farmers in Jobra agree to do for Yunus's initial university study?

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