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

2. What was the name of the man who did welding?

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

4. How far did Dr. Mchazime have to drive to Wimbe?

5. How far outside Arusha was the TED conference held?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What pressure did William feel after his windmill was completed?

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

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

6. Why did William want a battery?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

William commented that in farming a man can lose everything very quickly. Discuss farming in Malawi and why it was so difficult.

Essay Topic 2

Along with the rains came cholera. Discuss cholera and its effects in Malawi.

Essay Topic 3

After successfully building the windmill, William tried inventing other things. Discuss William's successes and failures as an inventor. Did he have more successes or failures?

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