Connecting to Text in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Question 8 • ELPGEQ3 M/J Language Arts 1 - 1001010 HCPS v24
Read the excerpt from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba.The wind would spin the blades of the windmill, rotate the magnets in a dynamo, and create electricity. Attach a wire to the dynamo and you could power anything, especially a bulb. All I needed was a windmill, and then I could have lights. No more kerosene lamps that burned our eyes and sent us gasping for breath. With a windmill, I could stay awake at night reading instead of going to bed at seven with the rest of Malawi.
Answer
A
Malawi lacked sufficient resources to generate energy.
B
Malawi was a small, rural country on the African continent.
C
Malawi had citizens who liked to go to sleep early in the evening.
D
Malawi provided kerosene lamps to its population for reading.