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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. In what year does Grameen loan its one billionth dollar?

2. Simply by being a shareholder in the Grameen Bank, members receive what?

3. What organization in Chicago starts the Full Circle Fund?

4. Bangladesh is approximately the size of ______________.

5. Who do Arkansas state officials first introduce Yunus to in the preliminary steps of finding Grameen borrowers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Grameen Trust?

2. What problems does Grameen encounter in the early 1990s?

3. Why does the Grameen Bank insist loans must be repaid even in the event of a disaster?

4. Who are mirco-credit programs designed to reach?

5. What problems does the Grameen fishery project encounter in the first years?

6. What are Grameen Phone and Grameen Telecom?

7. What is the Grameen Generalized System?

8. What is the International Dialogue Program?

9. According to Yunus, what role does free trade play in poverty relief?

10. How does Grameen give its staff leeway to be creative with loans?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss, using specific examples, what Yunus discovers as he begins to study the poor people in the village of Jobra.

Essay Topic 3

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).

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