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I Am Malala Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
"Even when I was only seven or eight, I was considered a ____________ city girl." 
a)
pious
b)
sophisticated
c)
blasphemy
d)
none of these
2.
"The whole country was in shock... after the earthquake. We were ____________."
a)
vulnerable
b)
militant
c)
virtuous
d)
none of these
3.
"I am representing good Muslims... And we all think your girls' high school is a ____________." 
a)
damper
b)
distort
c)
blasphemy
d)
none of these
4.
"I'd heard you were not a ____________ man... But there are Qurans here in your home." 
a)
pious
b)
blasphemous
c)
innovative
d)
none of these
5.
"At first, it sounded like just another imam giving advice about how to live a ____________ life." 
a)
studious
b)
pious
c)
virtuous
d)
none of these
6.
"Men should grow their hair and beards long... in what he called the '____________' fashion." 
a)
curfew
b)
menacing
c)
innovative
d)
none of these
7.
"... my mother had enjoyed his sermons... People, especially women, ____________ him." 
a)
romanticized
b)
blasphemed
c)
menaced
d)
none of these
8.
"People thought he was a good interpreter of the Holy Quran and admired his ____________." 
a)
studiousness
b)
haven
c)
charisma
d)
none of these
9.
"His men carried guns and walked ____________ through the streets." 
a)
militant
b)
curfew
c)
menacingly
d)
none of these
10.
"Since the more ____________ girls always sat up front, we would switch seats every week." 
a)
virtuous
b)
innovative
c)
menacing
d)
none of these
11.
"The army had imposed a ____________... it meant we had to stay indoors for certain hours..." 
a)
curfew
b)
accost
c)
reconciliation
d)
none of these
12.
"School remained a ____________ from the insanity of a city in the middle of a war." 
a)
virtuous
b)
haven
c)
both virtuous & haven
d)
none of these
13.
"When you are caught between military and ____________, there is no good." 
a)
militants
b)
charismatics
c)
charismas
d)
none of these
14.
"One day, when my mother went to the market... a big, burly Talib ____________ her and blocked her way." 
a)
converted
b)
accosted
c)
both converted and accosted
d)
none of these
15.
"I knew... the ____________ and rebuilding the government had promised [would take a long time]..." 
a)
conversion
b)
entrusting
c)
reconciliation
d)
none of these
16.
"You are the son of a religious cleric... But you are like a ____________. You are not a good Muslim." 
a)
convert
b)
pious
c)
both convert and pious
d)
none of these
17.
"And once again, our typical foolishness put a ____________ on the day." 
a)
damper
b)
curfew
c)
militant
d)
none of these
18.
"My face was swollen... the left corner of my mouth turned down in a frown. Who was this poor, ____________ Malala?"
a)
entrusted
b)
distorted
c)
both distorted and entrusted
d)
none of these
19.
"... my mother took her scarf off... and lifted it up to the sky... as if it were an offering. 'God, I ____________ her to you,' she said." 
a)
haven
b)
entrust
c)
offer
d)
none of these
20.
TRUE or FALSE: 
Malala spoke to the United Nations on her sixteenth birthday. 
a)
true
b)
false
21.
Choose the correct spelling of Malala's last name. 
a)
Yosafzai
b)
Yousafza
c)
Yousafzai
d)
none of these