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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much are all support group members required to deposit into a group fund?
(a) Ten dollars from each loan.
(b) Five percent of each loan.
(c) Ten percent of each loan.
(d) Five dollars from each loan.

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

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

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

5. What percentage of loans does Yunus want to go to women in his initial bank experiment?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

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

7. What percentage of the population in Bangladesh could not read or write in the late 1970s?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 90 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 25 percent.

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

9. Yunus and his second wife make a home in ____________, where they continue to live today.
(a) Tangail.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) Jobra.
(d) Chittagong.

10. What does Yunus's father not like about being in business?
(a) Making speeches.
(b) Navigating politics.
(c) Running a factory.
(d) Getting loans.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the world of development, Yunus believes that programs combine the poor and non-poor to the benefit of whom?

2. What are mahajons in Bangladesh?

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

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

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

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