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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. What does Yunus's father not like about being in business?

2. What is the name of Yunus's first wife?

3. What are mahajons in Bangladesh?

4. How much does each member of the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee donate to the committee fund?

5. Yunus decides to structure the loan repayment on a _________ basis for his loan program.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yunus describe his Bengali school?

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

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

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

5. What does Yunus do on behalf of Bengalis and Bangladesh after the country declares independence from Pakistan?

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

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

8. What is a dadan arrangement?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 how the Grameen Foundation USA is established, despite the problems Yunus perceives to exist in the welfare programs in the United States.

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