Part I: Before The Taliban
Identify the names of Malala's father, mother, and two brothers.
Who is Ziadduin, Toor Pekai, Khushal, and Atal.
Identify the full name of the Radio Mullah and finish this sentence: "God will send another earthquake to _________________."
Who is Maulana Fazlullah. God will send another earthquake to punish us all.
Identify Malala's pseuodnym (fake name) she would use in her diary entries for the BBC (British Broadcasting) and explain what her name means.
What is Gul Makai and it means cornflower.
What did Malala say she would do it a Talib came to kill her?
She said she would take her shoe and hit him.
When Malala first met Dr. Fiona Reynolds, what two questions did Malala write to Dr. Fiona?
Why I have no father?
My father has no money. Who will pay for this?
During the holidays of Big Eid and Small Eid, where would the family travel to?
Where is Shangla.
Due to Fazlullah and his followers, two teachers decided to stop teaching at Khushal School. Explain what reason each teacher gave us as to why they did not want to teach at Khushal School anymore.
What is one not wanting to teach girls and the other teacher was leaving to help Fazlullah build a religious center.
Madam Maryam sent out a message to all the girls in the upper school that she would open the school doors. What instructions did she give the girls, so that they could secretly continue to go to school and not be noticed?
What is do not wear your uniforms, dress in everyday clothes, plain shalwar kamiz.
Who was teaching Malala's mother to read in Urdu and begin learning English?
Who is Miss Ulfat.
Identify some bodily injuries Malala is going through from being attacked by the Taliban. Identify at least three injuries her body is currently going through.
A pounding, nonstop headache.
Seeing double, hardly hear.
Cannot move left arm or close left eye.
Tongue has gone numb.
Identify the name of the television show Safina and Malala would watch after school. Also, explain what the television show is about including the main character's name in your explanation.
What is Shaka Laka Boom Boom. It was about a boy named Sanju, who could make anything real by drawing it.
Complete the following sentences:
What have I done wrong that I should be ______? All I want to do is go to _____. And that is not a ______.
What have I done wrong that I should be afraid? All I want to do is go to school. And that is not a crime.
Explain what happened to Malala's mother at the market.
One day, when my mother went to the market to buy a gift for my cousin’s wedding, a big, burly Talib accosted her and blocked her way. “I could beat you, you know, for leaving your home without the proper burqa,” he said. “Do you understand?” My mother was angry and frightened. He meant a shuttlecock burqa, which covers the whole face, with only a mesh grille to see through. She was wearing a fashion burqa and didn’t even own the other kind. “Yes, okay,” she said. “I will wear this in the future.”
In early August, Malala's father's close friend was attacked. What is the name of his friend?
Zahid Khan.
How long was Malala in a coma for and how many days has it been between the shooting and her reuniting once again with her own family?
A week in a coma and sixteen days between the shooting and their reunion.
Give me the exact date of when the earthquake hit Pakistan. Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from who?
What is October 8, 2005 and was a warning from God.
The army had imposed a curfew. Who comes to Malala's house to speak to her about how the curfew works. What are the rules for the enforced curfew?
Safina, her mother and brother come to Malala's house and they tell Malala they had to stay indoors for certain hours of the day and always at night.
By the end of their journey to Shangla, they had to be on foot. Malala and her family had to walk how many miles to get to Shangla? Also, what does IDP stand for?
Because of Zahid Khan being attacked by the Taliban, explain how that changed Malala's father. How did he vary his routine each day? Identify at least 2 examples of how he varied his routine.
One day he would go to the primary school first thing in the morning; another day he would go to the girls’ school, and the next to the boys’. And before he stepped inside, he looked up and down the street four or five times to be sure he wasn’t being followed.
At night he would come to my room pretending he was there to say good night. But he was actually checking to make sure all my windows were locked.
Finish the sentences:
My father wears a handsome tweed _______ and brogues now when he goes to work. My mother uses the _________. Khushal is having a love affair with his _________. And Atal has discovered _________.
My father wears a handsome tweed blazer and brogues now when he goes to work. My mother uses the dishwasher. Khushal is having a love affair with his Xbox. And Atal has discovered Nutella.
In chapter 5, the mufti, an Islamic scholar came to Malala's home to speak with Malala's father about his opinions about the girls' high school being blasphemous. After some debating and arguing, what compromise did Malala's father come up with?
What is the older girls would enter through a different gate.
Because of the bombings, what strange things/behaviors did Malala's father, mother and brother's start doing?
My father started taking a different route home each evening in case someone was studying his routine. My mother avoided the market, and my brothers stayed inside on even the sunniest days.
Explain the condition of Malala's home when they returned and Khushal School.
The garden in the front had become a jungle. The pet chickens had starved to death. Khushal School was intact. Cigarette butts and food wrappers littered the floors. Chairs and desks were turned upside down in a jumbled mess.
Who was supposed to ride home with Malala that day she was attacked by the Taliban? Why didn't he ride home with Malala and the other girls? What did he do on the van that upset the bus driver?
Atal was supposed to ride home with Malala, but he said he would rather walk home than sit with girls. He would hang off the tailboard of the bus, the back of the bus and the bus driver hated this.
What did Malala do on her sixteenth birthday? Where did she travel to and what was she going to do there?
On my sixteenth birthday, I was given the most extraordinary gift: I was invited to speak to the United Nations. It was the first of two trips I would make to New York that year.