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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the Lakota Fund in South Dakota help?
(a) Bengali Nation.
(b) Sioux Nation.
(c) Iroquois Indians.
(d) Cherokee Territory.

2. Yunus has a new definition of an entrepreneur who is what?
(a) Driven by greed.
(b) Resource allocator.
(c) Political reformer.
(d) Socially conscious.

3. How many ponds does the fisheries project consist of by 1988?
(a) 783.
(b) 808.
(c) 667.
(d) 1666.

4. Grameen Bank II requires all borrowers to contribute _______ into a pension fund each month.
(a) 50 takas.
(b) 15 takas.
(c) 5 takas.
(d) 500 takas.

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

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

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

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

9. Yunus believes that the welfare laws in the U.S. makes recipients ________________.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Good with money.
(c) Better off.
(d) Virtual prisoners.

10. In answering a reporter's question, Yunus says he would move the headquarters of the World Bank to where?
(a) Washington D. C.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) London.
(d) Jobra.

11. What is the name of Grameen's quarterly newsletter?
(a) The Grameen Reader.
(b) Grameen Dialogue.
(c) Banker to the Poor.
(d) Microcredit News.

12. When Yunus approaches community leaders in Chicago, they argue that self-employment is a ___________ concept.
(a) Novel.
(b) Worthless.
(c) Primative.
(d) Excellent.

13. What international aid agency is Yunus particularly critical of?
(a) United Nations.
(b) World Bank.
(c) UNICEF.
(d) Habitat for Humanity.

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

15. What percentage of the world's population live in extreme poverty?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. An independent investigator finds the average rate of return for CARD borrowers is what?

2. The first Microcredit Summit was held in what year?

3. Where is Professor David Gibbons teaching when he meets Yunus at a conference near Dhaka?

4. As Yunus looks back on the success of Grameen Bank, how many of its borrowers are women?

5. What percentage of the aid money given to Bangladesh is estimated to actually be spent in the country?

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