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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of Chapter 12, how many times a day did William have to climb his tower to fix the windmill?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

3. When William got a battery to store electricity, how long could energy be stored in the battery?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 4 days.

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

5. When did officials from the Malawi Teacher Training Activity notice William's windmill in the schoolyard at Wimbe Primary?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long were the pieces of bamboo that William wired against each windmill blade for reinforcement?

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

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

4. Where were William's teachers located when he attended ABCCA?

5. How many years after William first had his idea for the windmill did he speak at the TED conference?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the word get out about William's windmills?

2. Who did Dr. Mchazime bring to interview William?

3. What did Tom Reilly do after the TED conference?

4. When William was in Tanzania, what was similar about what he saw in that country and what he would have seen at home?

5. How did William try to make biogas?

6. At the beginning of Chapter 9, how did William waste time in the trading center?

7. How did Tom Reilly help William raise money?

8. Why wouldn't William allow his sisters to sweep or clean his room?

9. Where did William get the wire that he needed to get lighting into his room?

10. How did William's father help him indirectly as William began his windmill project?

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