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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is a long tradition of what craft that was once in high demand in Bangladesh?
(a) Weaving.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Painting.
(d) Knife making.

2. Where is Professor David Gibbons teaching when he meets Yunus at a conference near Dhaka?
(a) Canada.
(b) Philippines.
(c) Malaysia.
(d) Bangladesh.

3. Which of the following is NOT a problem encountered by the Grameen fisheries project?
(a) Complete failure of the project.
(b) Leftist militant oposition.
(c) Government oposition.
(d) Natural disasters.

4. When does Yunus tell Governor Clinton that he can start a Grameen program in Arkansas?
(a) Six months.
(b) One year.
(c) The next day.
(d) The next month.

5. Grameen develops ____ indicators to determine if members are poverty free.
(a) 20.
(b) 16.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

6. Yunus argues that World Bank policies affect who the most?
(a) New poor.
(b) Old poor.
(c) Investors.
(d) Farmers.

7. How many total branches does the Grameen Bank have by the end of the book?
(a) 1,100.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 180,000.
(d) 1,181.

8. Grameen Bank provides housing loans at what interest rate?
(a) 8 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 5 percent.

9. Yunus believes the world has been persuaded that the capitalist economy must be fueled by __________.
(a) Laws.
(b) Social reform.
(c) Greed.
(d) Free trade.

10. By March 2003, how many "telephone ladies" does GrameenPhone have selling phone services in villages?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 25.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 250.

11. Jan Piercy is Hillary Rodham Clinton's ____________.
(a) Childhood friend.
(b) Press secretary.
(c) College roommate.
(d) Law partner.

12. According to Yunus, Bangladesh is a land of what?
(a) Natural disasters.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Fertile land.
(d) Conflict.

13. How many countries operate Grameen-style micro-credit programs by the end of the book?
(a) 50.
(b) 150.
(c) 10.
(d) 100.

14. By what year would Yunus like to see a world free of poverty?
(a) 2075.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2050.
(d) 2100.

15. What organization in Chicago starts the Full Circle Fund?
(a) MIT.
(b) WSEP.
(c) CASHPOR.
(d) RESULTS.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Grameen loan its one billionth dollar?

2. Who do Arkansas state officials first introduce Yunus to in the preliminary steps of finding Grameen borrowers?

3. When Yunus approaches community leaders in Chicago, they argue that self-employment is a ___________ concept.

4. Yunus stresses in his speech that the Microcredit Summit is not what?

5. What year does Professor Gibbons launch the Grameen replicator program called Project Ikhtiar?

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