Read the excerpt from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

by William Kamkwamba.

Which fact about Malawi helps the reader understand what

the excerpt is mostly about?

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.

O Malawi lacked sufficient resources to generate energy

O Malawi was a small, rural country on the African

continent

O Malawi had citizens who liked to go to sleep early in the

evening

O Malawi provided kerosene lamps to its population for

reading.