The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Ch. 15 Reading Check

What is the title of Chapter 15?

• "The World Discovers Wimbe"

• "Meeting Ted and Tom"

• "When Magic Ruled the World."

• Epilogue

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What amazing thing does William see when he arives in Arusha, Tanzania for the TED conference? p. 261

• A farm full of windmills

• Huge skyscrapers full of people

• Mt. Kilimanjaro

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"As the bus exited the airport, I gazed out the window to see if Tanzania looked any different from Malawi, but what I saw saw was very similar: The highway was filled with minibuses crammed with people; a giant lorry belched smoke and swerved to miss an old man on a bicycle."

(p. 260)

What type of figurative language is in the excerpt above?

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

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What did William NOT do with the money donated at TED? pgs 273-274)

• buy mattresses for his sisters

• pay for Gilbert to go back to school

• drill a bore hole for water

• bought himself a gold watch and a new car

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What was funny about seeing giraffes, hippos, and elephants for the first time at San Diego Wild Animal Park?

(pgs. 276-277)

• He saw them once before at the Kasungu National Park in Wimbe.

• He saw them everyday in Africa.

• These same animals lived only half an hour from his home, but it took him flying ten thousand miles to America to finally see them.

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All of the following could be different themes of the book except:

(WHICH ONE IS NOT A THEME OF THE BOOK)

• If you want to make it, all you have to do is try

• Hard work and perseverance can take you far

• chase your dreams and never let them go regardless of life's difficulties

• If things are too hard, just give up

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

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CCSS.RL.5.9

Put the events of Chapter 15 in the correct order:

• William installs new wires and a well at his family's home.

• William gets to the conference and listens to the other African speakers.

• William gives his own speech about his windmill and everyone cheers.

• William goes to the United States and visits New York and California.

• William arives in Arusha and sees Mt. Kilimanjaro.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

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What is the last quote in the novel (Ch. 15)?

• If you try, you will always make it.

• Never give up.

• Have the courage to try.

• If you want to make it, all you have to do is try.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

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Check all of the improvements that William made to his family's farm (choose 3).

• Better blankets to keep them warm in the winter.

• New cellphones for all of his sisters.

• A deep well so his family could have clean drinking water.

• A metal roof to replace the grass one.

• A brand new car for his mother.

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What did William struggle to learn how to do?

• Build more windmills.

• Help his neighbors.

• Learn to speak English properly.

• Drive a car.

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