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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. What is Yunus's favorite American television show to watch during his first summer in the U.S.?
(a) Hogan's Heroes.
(b) I Love Lucy.
(c) Gilligan's Island.
(d) 60 Minutes.

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

3. One managing director of the Central Bank of Bangladesh things village life is being ruined by bank employees' use of what?
(a) Scare tactics.
(b) Flashlights.
(c) Computers.
(d) Kindness.

4. How much in total does Yunus discover the poverty stricken people of Jobra need to make their own products?
(a) $47.
(b) $125.
(c) $27.
(d) $1024.

5. Yunus and his second wife make a home in ____________, where they continue to live today.
(a) Chittagong.
(b) Jobra.
(c) Tangail.
(d) Dhaka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drags on for a very long time in Bangladesh in 1974?

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

3. In 1982, Yunus is determined that Grameen should be what?

4. What percentage of loans does Yunus want to go to women in his initial bank experiment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the set up in the village of Jobra to determine loan eligibility and repayment terms?

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

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

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

5. What is a dadan arrangement?

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

7. Why does Yunus decide to return to Bangladesh?

8. What are the loan repayment terms that Yunus sets as he develops the Grameen Bank?

9. What does Yunus do on behalf of Bengalis and Bangladesh after the country declares independence from Pakistan?

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

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