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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries found that the birth rate falls as _______________.
(a) Women are kept submissive.
(b) Men gain wealth.
(c) Women gain equality.
(d) Governments limit family size.

3. How many children around the world die each day from hunger-related diseases?
(a) 350,000.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 3,500.

4. Who is the president of the Grameen Foundation USA?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Alex Counts.
(c) Connie Evans.
(d) Muhammad Yunus.

5. Who funds the fisheries project before Grameen?
(a) Brittish aid agency.
(b) World Bank.
(c) United Nations.
(d) Bangladesh government.

6. Under the traditional orthodoxy of economics, all investment money is locked into what category?
(a) Resource allocation.
(b) Government profit.
(c) Social reformation.
(d) Personal profit.

7. An independent investigator finds what percentage of CARD members use their loans for income-generating activities?
(a) 4 percent.
(b) 70 percent.
(c) 97 percent.
(d) 27 percent.

8. In over two decades of existence, how many years does Grameen Bank not turn a profit?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

9. In what year does Grameen receive a cellular phone license?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2001.

10. How much grant money does Grameen receive through the World Bank CGAP program?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $3 billion.
(c) $98 million.
(d) $30 million.

11. As GrameenPhone is launched, Bangladesh has one phone per _______ inhabitants.
(a) 400,000.
(b) 250.
(c) 300.
(d) 5000.

12. What year does Professor Gibbons launch the Grameen replicator program called Project Ikhtiar?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1991.

13. How many women are required for a Full Circle Fund group to begin borrowing?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

14. Which European government gives the CARD program a poor rating?
(a) Sweden.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

15. Who does the Prime Minister of Bangladesh call during the launching ceremony of GrameenPhone?
(a) President of the United States.
(b) Govenor of Arkansas.
(c) Prime minister of Norway.
(d) Prime minister of Great Britian.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Grameen receive helpful media coverage in March 1990?

2. Overall, Grameen is considered to be where on the political spectrum?

3. Grameen develops ____ indicators to determine if members are poverty free.

4. Simply by being a shareholder in the Grameen Bank, members receive what?

5. What organization in Chicago starts the Full Circle Fund?

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