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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 is the name of the capital city of Bangladesh?

2. Where does Yunus go first to study in the United States?

3. How many children are born into Yunus's family?

4. Chittagong is what kind of city?

5. What year did Yunus's mother die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the bank manager tell Yunus about developing a loan program for the poor?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Yunus discover about lending money to women?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay based on this statement: "The more money we lent to poor women, the more I realized that credit given to a woman brings about change faster than when given to a man," (Chapter 5, pp. 71-72).

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What classification does Yunus give to the levels of poverty, and how does he recommend the cycle of poverty be broken?

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