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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. What American group gives the first funding for the Grameen Trust?
(a) Microsoft.
(b) Rockefeller Foundation.
(c) MacArthur Foundation.
(d) Ford Foundation.

10. What is Grameen Check?
(a) Line of hand-woven fabric.
(b) Line of credit for craftsmen.
(c) Check writing service.
(d) Money wiring service.

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

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

13. How long does it take to transition all the branches into Grameen Bank II?
(a) Eight months.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two months.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the words mean in title of the program, Ahon Sa Hirop, started by Dr. Generoso Octavio?

3. Under the traditional orthodoxy of economics, all investment money is locked into what category?

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

5. UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries found that the birth rate falls as _______________.

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