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WorksheetsThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (read & answer) Chapters 12 - End
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 25mins
CHAPTER 12 (pg 208 - 212): What did William need to build so he could charge people's phones?
a computer
a power station
a step up transformer
a shop
CHAPTER 12 (pg 212 - 218): What animal nearly makes the roof fall down?
CHAPTER 12 (pg 218 - 225): Why did William need a rubber belt for his windmill?
Because rubber is cheaper than metal.
Because it looked nicer.
Because the bicycle chain kept breaking.
Because he wanted to save the environment.
CHAPTER 13 (pg 226 - 233): Which of William's projects failed?
charging phones
making a radio station
pumping water
all of them
CHAPTER 13 (pg 233 - 241): Why does William worry that the villagers will try to destroy his windmill?
Because they believe it is magic and has blown away the rain clouds.
Because it is too noisy and made of rubbish and looks terrible.
Because the electricity company (ESCOM) has paid them to destroy it.
CHAPTER 14 (pg 242 - 248): What did Dr Mchazime think was the most important thing for children to have?
electricity
maize
x-boxes
education
CHAPTER 13 (pg 248 - 252): What do the letters TED stand for?
Time, Education, Direction
Technology, Entertainment, Design
Teaching, Educating, Deserving
Trees, Eggs, Dogs
CHAPTER 13 (pg 252 - 259): True or False? The black trousers and white shirt were the nicest clothes William had ever owned.
true
false
CHAPTER 15 (pg 260 - 267): What impressed William the most at the TED conference?
CHAPTER 15 (pg 267 - 274): At ABCCA which two letters did William learn not to mix up?
A & B
L & R
M & N
X & Z
CHAPTER 15 (pg 273 - 274): What did William NOT do with the money donated at TED?
buy mattresses for his sisters
pay for Gilbert to go back to school
drill a bore hole for water
pay for a better windmill
CHAPTER 15 (pg 275 - 278): What did William see for the first time in America?
windmills
television
giraffes, hippos & elephants
coffee
EPILOGUE: What language did William learn at the African Leadership Academy?
Swahili
Shona
some Arabic
All of the them
EPILOGUE (pg 282 - 284): What did many kids tell William was the reason they enjoyed "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"?
They didn't enjoy it. They only read it because it was a school reading book.
It had good pictures and the story about nearly starving was interesting.
It made science seem cool.
It wasn't as long as the other books in the library.
EPILOGUE (pg 290): What is William's message to kids all over the world?
Your ambitions are important and worth achieving, however big or small.
the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
Windmills are big fans of renewable energy.
Don't blow your chances.
