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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. Where did Yunus's Bengali friend, Mohiuddin Alamgir, just graduate from at the time of the demonstration in Washington D.C.?

2. What is the population of Chittagong?

3. How much does the bamboo cost that Sufiaya Begum has to buy to make her stools?

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

5. What is the name of the brother that attended the Lamar Bazar Free Primary School with Yunus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Yunus's mother, Sofia?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the Grameen Bank Project in the District of Tangail?

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

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

9. Why does Yunus decide to return to Bangladesh?

10. How does Yunus describe his Bengali school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how The Nimgachi Fisheries Project is allegorically representative of the journey taken by the Grameen Bank.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the highs and lows experienced by Grameen in the 1990s.

Essay Topic 3

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).

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