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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) Fourteen.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) Five.
(d) Forty-two.

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

3. What is the name of the brother that attended the Lamar Bazar Free Primary School with Yunus?
(a) Salam.
(b) Shumar.
(c) Banik.
(d) Bishad.

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

5. What is the holy festival that Yunus attends in the fall of 1977?
(a) Jakat.
(b) Eid-ul Fitr.
(c) Ramadan.
(d) Niribili.

6. How many days of training do all support group members have to complete to be accepted into Yunus's program?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

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

11. Where is the famous economics professor, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen from?
(a) England.
(b) Romania.
(c) Russia.
(d) Bangladesh.

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

13. In what year was the Bangladesh War of Liberation?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1954.

14. What does the name of the farmers' cooperative experiment in Jobra, "Nabajug," mean?
(a) New era.
(b) More food.
(c) Hard work.
(d) Next year.

15. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the success of the loan support groups within Yunus's program?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Incentives.
(c) Intimidation.
(d) Competition.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Yunus visits the embassies of other countries throughout Washington D.C., they all ask if Bangladesh has a _____________.

2. Chittagong is what kind of city?

3. What year did Pakistan partition from India?

4. Yunus tells the managing director of the Bangladesh Agriculture Bank that he has no interest in becoming what?

5. As Yunus begins the loan program in Jobra village, who does he initially designate to collect the loan payments?

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