Plot Points
Characters
Setting and Theme
Vocabulary
Quotes
200

Malala was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in this year.

What is 2014?

200

The author of this piece.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

200

The author is from this place (Region + Country).

Where is Swat District, Pakistan?

200

Malala is one of these, speaking up or taking action to support a cause.

What is an activist?

200

Malala is talking to this group when she says “Sisters and Brothers.”

Who is the audience?

400

Malala was attacked for doing this simple yet powerful act.

What is going to school?

400

Malala is the first of these people to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

What is “Pastun” or “Pakistani”?

400

Swat, Pakistan is described as a place of: ____ and ____ before becoming a place of terrorism.

What is “tourism and beauty”?

400

What the author means when she writes “thirst for education.”

What is to yearn or want an education?

400

The true message of Islam, according to the Yousafzai family.

What is “always speak the truth.”

600

The reason Malala gives for thanking her father.

What is not clipping her wings and for letting her fly?

600

Their names are Shazia, and Kainat.

Who are Malala’s sisters?

600

Malala says this group deserves the same rights as boys.

Who are girls?

600

The first word of the Holy Quran (in English).

What is “read”?

600

Finish the quote: “We have already taken many steps. Now it is time to take a ____.”

What is “leap”?

800

Malala and her friends drew this on their bodies in henna, instead of flowers and patterns.

What are mathematical formulas and equations?

800

One of three ways Malala is described by others.

Who is “the girl who was shot by Taliban” or “the girl who fought for her rights” or a “Nobel Laureate”?

800

Malala shares the Peace Prize with which Indian Child Rights Activist?

Who is Kailash Satyarthi?

800

The first word of the Holy Quran (in Arabic).

What is “Iqra”?

800

Malala asks fellow children to do this instead of wait.

What is “work”?

1000

Malala said: “I had two options, one was to remain silent and wait to be killed. The second was…”

What is “to speak up and then be killed?”

1000

A French heroine and military leader at just 17 years old.

Who is Joan of Arc?

1000

Malala said: “I tell my story not because it is unique, but because…”

What is “it is not”?

1000

Malala said: “Many children… especially in India and Pakistan are deprived of their right to education because of social taboos.” Social taboos means…

What is “something that is prohibited”?

1000

The UN-created set of 17 global goals to be achieved by 2030.

What is the Sustainable Development Goals?