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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Twenty-two.
(c) Five.
(d) Fourteen.

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

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

4. What equipment does Yunus notice going unused in the fields of Jobra?
(a) Tubewell.
(b) Plow.
(c) Tractor.
(d) Sprinkler.

5. As Yunus visits the embassies of other countries throughout Washington D.C., they all ask if Bangladesh has a _____________.
(a) Treasury.
(b) Army.
(c) Flag.
(d) Government.

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

7. How much in total does Yunus discover the poverty stricken people of Jobra need to make their own products?
(a) $125.
(b) $1024.
(c) $47.
(d) $27.

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

9. Where did Yunus's Bengali friend, Mohiuddin Alamgir, just graduate from at the time of the demonstration in Washington D.C.?
(a) University of Chicago.
(b) Vanderbilt University,
(c) Chittagong University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Yunus's mother die?

2. What does Yunus want for his students who are working so hard on the Jobra loan experiment?

3. How much does each member of the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee donate to the committee fund?

4. What does Yunus reluctantly agree to do in order to get the first government loans for the people of Jobra village?

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

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