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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founded Baobab?
(a) Andy Bryant.
(b) Gerry Douglas.
(c) David Mortinsen.
(d) Will Robertson.

2. How far did Dr. Mchazime have to drive to Wimbe?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 5 hours.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 3 hours.

3. How many page results came up on Google for the word "windmill"?
(a) 798, 543.
(b) 5,000,000.
(c) 1,300,000.
(d) 283,000.

4. What was the name of the falls in southern Malawi where the hydro plants were?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Nkula.
(c) Kalambo.
(d) Thomson.

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

6. How many electron tubes did William say were in a color television?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

7. When did Agnes go to visit her parents?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2002.

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

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

10. Because of the famine, when did the secondary school where Gilbert went stop having school?
(a) February.
(b) March.
(c) April.
(d) January.

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

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

13. What color were the paper bills that Gilbert used to buy the dynamo for William?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

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

15. If someone took medicine provided by the clinic, how long would it usually take to get over a case of malaria?
(a) 10 days.
(b) About a month.
(c) 3 days.
(d) A week or two.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a maize harvest, for how many months would there be dried cobs to burn?

2. What did students call William when they saw him digging in the scrapyard?

3. How many turns did the primary coil of a step-up transformer have in a diagram?

4. How many volts did a generator produce that used a treadmill motor?

5. What was the name of the group that William played when he was first testing his radio station?

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