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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. Chittagong is what kind of city?
(a) Small industrial.
(b) Mountain outpost.
(c) Seaport.
(d) Rural farmland.

2. What does the government bank manager say is the biggest problem with loaning money to the poor people of Bangladesh?
(a) Available funds.
(b) Loan documents.
(c) Government permission.
(d) Worthy enterprises.

3. What does Yunus make for demonstration in Washington D.C.?
(a) Festoons.
(b) Petitions.
(c) Flags.
(d) Uniforms.

4. What is the name of the middlemen that Sufiaya Begum has to go through to get her bamboo?
(a) Purdahs.
(b) Takas.
(c) Paikars.
(d) Poyshas.

5. Yunus's mother tells him the story of _____________.
(a) Dula Mia.
(b) Khatan and Karbala.
(c) Hussan and Hussein.
(d) Bishad Shindhu.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much are all support group members required to deposit into a group fund?

2. What does Yunus want for his students who are working so hard on the Jobra loan experiment?

3. Yunus's experiment with the village of Jobra convinces him to focus on what?

4. Who does Yunus say are not the poorest people in Bangladesh?

5. What equipment does Yunus notice going unused in the fields of Jobra?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Yunus pay for the printing business he starts in the early 1960s?

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

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

5. Who helps Yunus get his loan program started?

6. What did Yunus discover as he visited the poor villagers of Jobra?

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

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

9. Describe Yunus's childhood home on Boxirhat Road.

10. What does Yunus do for money in his youth?

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