Question

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. Which fact about Malawi helps the reader understand what the excerpt is mostly about? Malawi lacked sufficient resources to generate energy. Malawi was a small, rural country on the African continent. Malawi had citizens who liked to go to sleep early in the evening. Malawi provided kerosene lamps to its population for reading.

Answer 1

Answer: The most correct option is

"Malawi was a small, rural country on the African continent".

Explanation: From the excerpt, it is seen that the people of Malawi lacks electricity, and from an understanding of what urbanization is, it is only a rural part of the world that will lack electricity in this century. Because the people of Malawi only has access to kerosene lamp that means, they don't have electricity until the boy built a windmill.

Since the boy was able to build a windmill, that means they have the resources to generate energy.

The citizens may not be happy going to sleep early, but because staying awake with a kerosene lamp is boring to their sight, they have no option than to sleep early.

It was never mentioned that the government provides the lamp and kerosene for the citizens to read.