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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Yunus receive news of the government proclamation that the Grameen bank was born?
(a) September 1983.
(b) March 1984.
(c) December 1982.
(d) June 1985.

2. Yunus launches a project with his Chittagong University students to study what?
(a) Jobra's people.
(b) Jobra's economy.
(c) Money lending.
(d) Farm yields.

3. In the world of development, Yunus believes that programs combine the poor and non-poor to the benefit of whom?
(a) Poor.
(b) Non-poor.
(c) Government.
(d) Aid agencies.

4. When members of the support groups are finally approved to have a loan, how much is the initial loan asked for in the 1980s?
(a) $100.
(b) $75.
(c) $1000.
(d) $25.

5. What is the population of Chittagong?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 600,000.
(d) 3 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the population in Bangladesh could not read or write in the late 1970s?

2. What year did Pakistan partition from India?

3. What year does the Grameen Bank receive the Aga Khan International Award for Architecture?

4. Tangail District is in the throes of a warlike situation with an underground ____________ movement.

5. What is the name of Yunus's first wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in 1977 when Yunus visits a bank in Dhaka?

2. What happens during the Partition in 1947?

3. Who is Yunus's first wife and how did he meet her?

4. Who helps Yunus get his loan program started?

5. What is happening in Yunus's homeland in 1971 while he is in America?

6. What is the Grameen Bank Project in the District of Tangail?

7. What is Yunus's experience like at the American universities he attends?

8. What does Yunus conclude is a fundamental problem of poverty?

9. What is the purpose of the Chittagong University Rural Development Project?

10. What does Yunus discover about lending money to women?

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