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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Boy Scout leader who had a strong influence on Yunus?
(a) Dula Mia.
(b) Quazi Sirajul Huq.
(c) Bashid Shindhu.
(d) Ibrahim Sahib.

2. Tangail District is in the throes of a warlike situation with an underground ____________ movement.
(a) Marxist.
(b) Military.
(c) Communist.
(d) Democratic.

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

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

5. Yunus launches a project with his Chittagong University students to study what?
(a) Jobra's people.
(b) Money lending.
(c) Farm yields.
(d) Jobra's economy.

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

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

8. What is the name of Yunus's first wife?
(a) Velda.
(b) Sasha.
(c) Sofia.
(d) Vera.

9. Yunus's father is a devout __________.
(a) Baptist.
(b) Hindu.
(c) Buddhist.
(d) Muslim.

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

11. As Yunus begins to define poverty, what does he discover is left out of most definitions of the poor?
(a) The elderly.
(b) The homeless.
(c) Women and children.
(d) Farm workers.

12. The process of explaining how Yunus's operation works to other villagers is particularly difficult for whom?
(a) Yunus.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Students.

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

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

15. In 1982, Yunus is determined that Grameen should be what?
(a) An independent bank.
(b) Publically owned.
(c) A government program.
(d) Privately owned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the family of Yunus's first wife from originally?

2. How old is Yunus when his mother's behavior begins to change?

3. When members of the support groups are finally approved to have a loan, how much is the initial loan asked for in the 1980s?

4. How many of Yunus's siblings die in infancy?

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

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