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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The program in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is changed from the Grameen Fund to the ___________.
(a) Good Works Fund.
(b) Free Money Fund.
(c) Free Help Fund.
(d) Good Faith Fund.

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

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

5. Yunus estimates that Internet use worldwide is __________ every year.
(a) Shrinking.
(b) Growing insignificantly.
(c) Tripling.
(d) Doubling.

6. Who do Arkansas state officials first introduce Yunus to in the preliminary steps of finding Grameen borrowers?
(a) Small business owners.
(b) Welfare recipients.
(c) Single mothers.
(d) Homeless men.

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

8. In Bangladesh in 1991, Grameen members come out in great numbers to do what?
(a) Protest.
(b) Vote.
(c) Riot.
(d) Work.

9. What is the purpose of the non-profit Grameen Shakti?
(a) Providing clean water.
(b) Developing sources of renewable energy.
(c) Providing health care.
(d) Developing literacy programs.

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

11. What is one of the hardest years ever for Grameen on many fronts?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1971.
(d) 2001.

12. When does Yunus meet Governor Bill Clinton?
(a) February 1987.
(b) March 1985.
(c) February 1986.
(d) March 1989.

13. At an annual workshop held by the Grameen Bank in 1982, what proposal is drawn up?
(a) Laws of Grameen.
(b) Survival Rules.
(c) Ten Decisions.
(d) Rules of Prosperity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Yunus tell Governor Clinton that he can start a Grameen program in Arkansas?

3. Yunus has a new definition of an entrepreneur who is what?

4. In answering a reporter's question, Yunus says he would move the headquarters of the World Bank to where?

5. What year was Grameen Bank II launched?

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