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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 drags on for a very long time in Bangladesh in 1974?

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

3. How many times does the Grameen Bank apply for permission from the Central Bank to offer housing loans?

4. What kind of business does Yunus's father have?

5. How many Bengalis are in the Nashville area at the time that Yunus forms the Bangladesh Citizens' Committee?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Yunus describe his Bengali school?

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

5. What did Yunus discover as he visited the poor villagers of Jobra?

6. What is the outcome of the Chittagong University Rural Development Project?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Yunus's criticism of the World Bank and compare their divergent efforts to help the poor people of the world.

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