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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Yunus believes one of the biggest flaws of international aid agencies is being too what?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Altruistic.
(c) Overbearing.
(d) Thrifty.

3. Grameen believes that _________ is one of the primary components of moving individuals out of poverty.
(a) Education.
(b) Discipline.
(c) Government assistance.
(d) Skill training.

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

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

6. An independent investigator finds the average rate of return for CARD borrowers is what?
(a) 78 percent.
(b) 97 percent.
(c) 18 percent.
(d) 117 percent.

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

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

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

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

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

12. As Yunus looks back on the success of Grameen Bank, how many of its borrowers are women?
(a) 88 percent.
(b) 95 percent.
(c) 67 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

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

14. The goal of the first Microcredit Summit is to reach 100 million of the poorest families in the world in _____ years.
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifteen.

15. What year was Grameen Bank II launched?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1998.

Short Answer Questions

1. What international aid agency is Yunus particularly critical of?

2. In many Third World countries, the overwhelming majority of people make their living through what?

3. Most foreign aid given to developing countries goes toward what?

4. The Grameen replication program called the Landless People's Fund of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development is established in which country?

5. In Bangladesh in 1991, Grameen members come out in great numbers to do what?

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