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

2. Because of the famine, when did the secondary school where Gilbert went stop having school?

3. By the end of Chapter 12, how many times a day did William have to climb his tower to fix the windmill?

4. Who founded Baobab?

5. In a diagram in "Explaining Physics" how many volts were transformed to 240 in a step-up transformer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did William and his father feel about the harvest in Chapter 10?

2. Why did William want a battery?

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

4. What was the library like at Wimbe Primary School?

5. How did William try to make biogas?

6. Describe how the belts worked that William used to replace the chain on his windmill.

7. How did Tom Reilly help William raise money?

8. Who were some of the people who came to see William's windmill in Chapter 11?

9. Describe the place where William put his windmill together.

10. What happened when William tested his windmill for the first time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After William received the grades for his Standard Eight exams, he explained how the education system in Malawi. Discuss education in Malawi and how William fared in the educational system.

Essay Topic 2

When William was a young boy, magic ruled his world. The objective of this lesson is to compare and contrast how William and his father viewed magic.

Essay Topic 3

William shared good times and bad times in his autobiography. Discuss the overall mood of the book.

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