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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does a new Finance Minister restructure the ownership agreement Grameen Bank had with the Bangladesh government?

2. What is the name of the Muslim custom that keeps married women in seclusion?

3. What does the name of the farmers' cooperative experiment in Jobra, "Nabajug," mean?

4. What kind of business does Yunus's father have?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is A.M.A. Muhith and how does he help Yunus?

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

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

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

5. Who helps Yunus get his loan program started?

6. What happens during the Partition in 1947?

7. What surprise does Yunus find in the final agreement from the government to help the Grameen Bank in 1983?

8. What does the bank manager tell Yunus about developing a loan program for the poor?

9. Who designs the logo for the Grameen Bank, what does it look like, and what does it symbolize?

10. What is the outcome of the Chittagong University Rural Development Project?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following statement in relation to Yunus's specific plans to rid the world of poverty by 2050: "We have created a slavery-free world, a smallpox-free world, an apartheid-free world. Creating a poverty-free world would be greater than all these accomplishments while at the same time reinforcing them. This would be a world that we could all be proud to live in." (Chapter 14, p. 262).

Essay Topic 2

What is Partition and what effect does it have on Muhammad Yunus? How does this lay the framework for his future devotion to his country?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Yunus's concept of the socially conscious entrepreneur and what he believes should be the third sector of the economy.

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