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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. 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.

2. Yunus decides to structure the loan repayment on a _________ basis for his loan program.
(a) Annual.
(b) Daily.
(c) Monthly.
(d) Weekly.

3. Where did Yunus's Bengali friend, Mohiuddin Alamgir, just graduate from at the time of the demonstration in Washington D.C.?
(a) Chittagong University.
(b) Vanderbilt University,
(c) Harvard University.
(d) University of Chicago.

4. What is the current interest rate for Grameen loans?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 5 percent.
(d) 2 percent.

5. What does Yunus's father not like about being in business?
(a) Getting loans.
(b) Running a factory.
(c) Making speeches.
(d) Navigating politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Bengalis are in the Nashville area at the time that Yunus forms the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee?

2. What scholarship for a Ph.D is Yunus offered in 1965?

3. What year did Pakistan partition from India?

4. How many of Yunus's siblings die in infancy?

5. What does Yunus make for demonstration in Washington D.C.?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What influence does each of Yunus's parents have on him?

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

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

5. What happens immediately to the government backed Grameen Bank?

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

7. How does the Grameen Bank Project attract young people to its employ?

8. What is a dadan arrangement?

9. How does Yunus become involved with combating the famine that strikes Bangladesh in 1974?

10. How does Yunus describe his Bengali school?

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