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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the relative whose phone William charged the first time he charged a mobile phone?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) Rose.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Margaret.

2. How much did Gilbert spend to buy a dynamo?
(a) 175 kwacha.
(b) 200 kwacha.
(c) 225 kwacha.
(d) 150 kwacha.

3. What English word did William want to look up when he found a book that changed his life?
(a) Lemon.
(b) Transformer.
(c) Conductor.
(d) Grapes.

4. Where was the best place for William to find materials for his windmill?
(a) Estate 15.
(b) Estate 37.
(c) Estate 24.
(d) Estate 5.

5. When did Michael Faraday invent the first transformer?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1797.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1898.

6. What did William use to make a flathead screwdriver?
(a) Flattened piece of metal.
(b) Wire.
(c) File.
(d) Bicycle spoke.

7. How many volts did a generator produce that used a treadmill motor?
(a) 36.
(b) 22.
(c) 48.
(d) 60.

8. How many people did William have to speak in front of at the TED conference?
(a) 180.
(b) 225.
(c) 450.
(d) 375.

9. How long did William keep a book called Explaining Physics and study it daily?
(a) A month.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 2 months.

10. How many years after William first had his idea for the windmill did he speak at the TED conference?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

11. How much was Shore Rubber paying for old women's rubber shoes?
(a) Quarter pound of tobacco.
(b) Half kilo of salt.
(c) 1 bag of maize.
(d) 50 kwacha.

12. At the beginning of Chapter 13, what school was advertised on the radio?
(a) Blantyre.
(b) Mwaya.
(c) Kaphuka.
(d) Kachokolo.

13. How tall was the first tree that William Geoffrey, and Gilbert chopped down for the windmill tower?
(a) 7 meters.
(b) 8 meters.
(c) 5 meters.
(d) 6 meters.

14. How many hours did it take William to bore holes in his windmill blades?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 5 hours.

15. How many hills would Geofrey have to ride up to get diesel?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Baobab founded?

2. How deep was the shallow well at William's house?

3. How many people began showing up daily to see William's windmill after it was built?

4. What part of William's body was injured when he climbed his tower to fix the chain on his windmill?

5. Who volunteered to be William's first investor?

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