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

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

3. How deep was the shallow well at William's house?
(a) 30 feet.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) 40 feet.
(d) 60 feet.

4. How much did Gilbert spend to buy nuts and bolts for William?
(a) 25 kwacha.
(b) 15 kwacha.
(c) 75 kwacha.
(d) 50 kwacha.

5. What was the one day of the week when no trucks stopped at the ChiPiKU store? .
(a) Monday
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Wednesday.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take Agnes and her daughters to cut wood for cooking?

2. When was Baobab founded?

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

4. How far from William's bedroom would the radio signal disappear?

5. What was the name of the housekeeper at the house where William stayed when he was at school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did William get a dynamo for his windmill?

4. How did Tom Reilly help William raise money?

5. How did William believe that a windmill would help him and his family?

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

7. How did William get rid of termites when a beam fell from his bedroom ceiling?

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

9. Why was it difficult for William to read on his own books from the library?

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

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