What is the name of the valley Malala is from?
Swat
At what point does the school fall under “the shadow of Radio Mullah”?
When the girls stop wearing their uniforms to school
Describe Shangla
Shangla is where her parents were from. The people there were very poor and did not have modern facilities like hospitals and markets. When Malala, her siblings, and her parents got there, her family often had a huge feast.
What are Malala's parents names?
Ziauddin & Toor-Pekai
What was the radio person's name who supported the Taliban?
Fazlullah or Radio Mullah
Who is Malala named after?
Malalai- A famous Pashtun poet and warrior woman from southern Afghanistan.
The code of purdah is
requires women to cover themselves in public.
What is the difference between the Khushual school and the Madrasa school?
The Khushal school is institution dedicated to teaching and learning; A Madrasa school at any grade level it may have courses in Islamic theology and religious law
What are the names of Malala's two brothers?
Kushal and Atal
Name one rule the Taliban enforces.
Women must wear burqas.
Women must be accompanied by a male family member in public.
Girls and women may not attend school.
Etc.
Who is Malala's best friend?
Moniba
Name three jobs Malala's father had in the school.
Principal, teacher, accountant, handyman, janitor, and mechanic
People liked listening to the man on the radio. They felt he interpreted the Holy Quran well. They liked how he talked about bringing back Islamic Law. He sounded beautiful. Why didn't Malala's father listen to him?
Malala's father did not listen to the Radio Mullah's messages from the beginning but her mother told him not to speak that way because God will be angry with him. He said No Radio Mullah is going to tell him what to do. Malala's father did some research and found out the Mullah was a high school dropout and didn't have any religious credentials.
What is the connection with Malala & Ugly Betty?
It was a TV show that Malala watch to improve her English and she dreamed of living in a place like that.
Why was Benazir Bhutto killed by the Taliban?
She spoke out against them and stood up for human rights.
When Malala met with Richard Holbrooke a special ambassador from the U.S. what did Malala request & what was his response?
True or False boys and girls taught at the Kushal school?
True- both boys and girls were taught at the Kushal school
Radio Mullah encouraged people not to send their daughters to school. He suggested people stop vaccinating their children because medical aid was not meant to help. Why didn't he want people to get the polio vaccination?
He argued that the vaccines were part of an American conspiracy to make Pakistanis infertile.
What is the book of the Muslim faith?
Holy Quran
When the Taliban began to really take over Swat what was enforced that Malala had never known before that time?
curfew
What does IDP stand for?
Internally Displaced People
What was Malala's pseudonym name for the BBC diary?
Gul Makai
Malala now knew what terrorism means. What did she say it was?
She felt it was different from war because terrorism is fear all around you, nowhere is safe, no one is safe.
Ziauddin carved her name into the family tree, which had never been done before.
What did Radio Mullah encourage people to burn?
CD's, TV's, and DVD's