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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 believes that repaying a large lump sum at the end of a loan is _______________ for borrowers.

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

3. The process of explaining how Yunus's operation works to other villagers is particularly difficult for whom?

4. Yunus develops an ownership proposal where the Bangladesh government will own what percentage of Grameen?

5. Who does Yunus say are not the poorest people in Bangladesh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Yunus pay for the printing business he starts in the early 1960s?

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

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

6. What happens during the Partition in 1947?

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

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

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

10. Describe Yunus's childhood home on Boxirhat Road.

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

Describe the Grameen Bank's early success and its process of expanding into the Tangail District.

Essay Topic 3

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

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