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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. Yunus's father is a devout __________.

2. What year does Yunus return to Bangladesh after teaching in Tennessee?

3. How much profit does Sufiaya Begum make on selling her bamboo stools?

4. What is the population of Chittagong?

5. What does Yunus learn from Professor Georgescu-Roegen that causes economics and life to be more complicated than they really are?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yunus find rewarding about his work as he begins to develop the Grameen Bank?

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

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

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

5. Who helps Yunus get his loan program started?

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

7. Why does Yunus decide to return to Bangladesh?

8. What happens immediately to the government backed Grameen Bank?

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

10. What happens in the personal life of Yunus in 1980?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Citing three specific examples, discuss the far reaching benefits experienced in the lives of Grameen borrowers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the Grameen replication process and success of the programs introduced into Malaysia and the Philippines.

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