Chapter10 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

What is the main idea of Chapter 10?

• William wants to build a windmill.

• William want to help his father with the harvest.

• William has a chance to go to school when his father sells his tobacco crop

• William has a chance to go to school when his father sells his maize crop.

How does William manage to go to school when his father does not have the money?

• Williams's father sells the tobacco crop which he gives to William to go to school.

• Gilbert gives William money to go to school.

• Geoffery gives William money to go to school.

• Williams sneaks into the classroom and his father begs for more time.

What was William's greatest fear?

• Dying of starvation

• Becoming a poor Malawian farmer

• Never being able to go to school again

• Getting sick

What does this simile on page 171 mean?

"The maize appeared like bars of my own prison."

• They used maize in the prison cells

• Growing and harvesting the maize kept him from doing the things he really wanted to do.

• The maize was like a cell he was trapped in because he couldn't get out easily.

• The maize looked like the bars of a jail cell to him.

Why did William enter the harvest with a conflicted heart?

• William was afraid the maize would not be enough food for his family to live on.

• William was not sure if he would be able to help with the harvest.

• William was not sure their would be enough money from the harvest for him to go to school.

• William was happy he and his family had food to harvest but he did not want to feel trapped by it.

What did William collect from the scrapyard?

• gears

• engine grease

• colterpins

• a crankshaft

What was the biggest and most important piece for William's windmill?

• The tractor blade

• The bicycle wheel

• The PVC pipe

• The crackshaft

Why did William's father no longer force him to work in the fields?

• He felt bad about William not being able to go to school.

• He knew William had better things to do.

• He wanted William to have some fun and not have to work all the time.

• He wanted William to build his windmill

What replaced school in William's mind?

• The Maize field

• The Library

• The scrapyard

• The books he read

In the scrapyard William pretended to be a _____________.

• He pretended to be a truck driver.

• He pretended to be a school teacher.

• He pretended to be a mechanic.

• He pretended to be a scrap collector.