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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 do people need in order to borrow money from the government bank in Bangladesh?

2. What scholarship for a Ph.D is Yunus offered in 1965?

3. What year did Pakistan partition from India?

4. What does Yunus make for demonstration in Washington D.C.?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

7. What is happening in Yunus's homeland in 1971 while he is in America?

8. What is the set up in the village of Jobra to determine loan eligibility and repayment terms?

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

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

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

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

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