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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. Grameen develops ____ indicators to determine if members are poverty free.
(a) 20.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

2. As GrameenPhone is launched, Bangladesh has one phone per _______ inhabitants.
(a) 400,000.
(b) 250.
(c) 5000.
(d) 300.

3. Who does the Lakota Fund in South Dakota help?
(a) Sioux Nation.
(b) Cherokee Territory.
(c) Bengali Nation.
(d) Iroquois Indians.

4. What do the words mean in title of the program, Ahon Sa Hirop, started by Dr. Generoso Octavio?
(a) Rise above poverty.
(b) Away from poverty.
(c) A rise from the dirt.
(d) A rise from the Ashes.

5. Who is the American co-chair of the first Microcredit Summit?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Laura Bush.
(c) Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(d) Bill Clinton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of power for the cellular phones in the villages of Bangladesh?

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

3. What international aid agency is Yunus particularly critical of?

4. An independent investigator finds the average rate of return for CARD borrowers is what?

5. An independent investigator finds what percentage of CARD members use their loans for income-generating activities?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Yunus, what role does free trade play in poverty relief?

2. How does Grameen give its staff leeway to be creative with loans?

3. What does Yunus believe is the best way to help control population size?

4. Who are mirco-credit programs designed to reach?

5. What are Grameen Phone and Grameen Telecom?

6. What problems does Yunus encounter with the U.S. welfare system?

7. How does Yunus rate the success of the Grameen programs as he looks back on the first two decades?

8. What is the Grameen Foundation USA?

9. What is the Grameen Generalized System?

10. What is the definition of a "social entrepreneur"?

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