I Am Malala Test

What is not one of the settings of the book?

• The city of Mingora in the Swat Valley of Pakistan

• Shangla, in the mountainous countryside of northwestern Pakistan

• Birmingham, England

• Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States

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Malala’s father named her after

• His mother who had fought for women’s rights

• A heroic Pashtun teenage girls who told her people in a battle that it is “better to live for one day like a lion than like a slave for 100 years.”

• A Nobel Peace Prize winner

• Someone who had started schools for girls in their community.

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Because of the religious rules and the danger to the students, Malala’s father makes several changes at the school. Which is NOT one of them?

• The older girls would enter from a different entrance from the boys

• The children do not wear their uniforms

• The children do not walk to school alone

• He keeps Malala home from school at times when she is scared.

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Why does Malala’s family hide the TV in the closet?

• Her mother didn’t want the father to look upon women that were forbidden to him.

• Because Fazlullah’s followers would listen at the door and enter to smash it

• Because Shaka Laka Boom Boom didn’t show the magic pencil anymore

• Because it was too expensive to burn in the center of town

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Malala’s mother quotes the Holy Quran saying, “Falsehood has to die. And truth has to come forward” (76). She has given Malala permission to do what?

• Be in the documentary by the New York Times

• Go to school dressed as a boy after the Taliban shut down the schools

• Write a diary for the BBC using the pretend name Gul Makai

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Mark all the statements that are TRUE about Jan 15, the last day of school for the girls

• The New York Times was filming Malala to make a documentary.

• Every girl in Malala’s class was there except for Moniba

• Some teachers even assigned homework.

• The girls played some of their favorite games.

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Two million people left the Swat Valley because of the fighting between the Taliban and the army. When Malala’s family returned what did they find had happened?

• The chickens were alive but Malala’s books were stolen.

• The army had been living in their house.

• The army had been living in their school and left a note blaming the people of Swat for the Taliban.

• The Taliban had left the heads of goats and sheep in the school as a warning.

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Malala has questions when she wakes up at the hospital. Which is not one of them?

• Why she has no hair?

• Is her father OK?

• Who will pay for the hospital bills?

• What country she is in?

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There were many ways that living in Pakistan and England was different for Malala and her family. Which is not one of them?

• There were not as many neighbors, visitors and true friends in England.

• The weather was hot in England but cold in Pakistan.

• The women dressed in ways that showed a lot of skin in England but not in Pakistan.

• The expectations for how men and women interacted were different.

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In the epilogue, Malala spent her 16th birthday doing what special thing?

• Returning to Pakistan for the first time since the shooting

• At a surprise party with Selena Gomez, Beyonce and Barack Obama

• With her parents and brothers at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens

• Speaking in front of the United Nations

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