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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall was the first tree that William Geoffrey, and Gilbert chopped down for the windmill tower?
(a) 8 meters.
(b) 7 meters.
(c) 5 meters.
(d) 6 meters.

2. How much did the windmill frame weigh?
(a) 85 pounds.
(b) 75 pounds.
(c) About 90 pounds.
(d) About 100 pounds.

3. How long did Agnes stay at her parents' home?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

4. How long did it take Agnes and her daughters to cut wood for cooking?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 3 hours.

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

6. How much did Gilbert spend to buy a dynamo?
(a) 175 kwacha.
(b) 225 kwacha.
(c) 200 kwacha.
(d) 150 kwacha.

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

8. What was the name of the housekeeper at the house where William stayed when he was at school?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Millie.
(c) Anna.
(d) Becca.

9. What was the name of the group that William played when he was first testing his radio station?
(a) Duck and Cover.
(b) Lark.
(c) AKING.
(d) Black Missionaries.

10. How long did it take William to dig up an old pipe that had been buried under an old bathhouse?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 25 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 15 minutes.

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

12. What color did William paint the walls in his family's home so they would reflect light better?
(a) White.
(b) Cream.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Beige.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who volunteered to be William's first investor?

2. How holes were dug for the windmill?

3. What new game did William learn to play in Chapter 9?

4. How many hours did it take William to bore holes in his windmill blades?

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

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