I Am Malala Questions and Answers
What is the significance Malala places on the first word of the Quran in I Am Malala?
What is the author's point of view and purpose in I Am Malala?
What first impression of Malala do you get from the opening paragraph of the prologue? What kind of girl is she?
What did Malala see when she walked to the dump?
What is the main idea of I Am Malala?
Provide a summary of Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize speech. What is the main message of this speech?
What is Malala's relationship with her brothers like?
How many times was Malala shot?
What is Malala's main message?
Why did the Taliban shoot Malala?
Foreshadowing is a literary device that gives readers a hint about the events to come. Malala says, "I'd had a strange, gnawing feeling that something bad was gong to happen." What does this foreshadow?
Malala describes something called the Pashtunwali code through parts of the first chapter of I Am Malala. Describe this code and its effect on Malala and her family.
According to I Am Malala, how does Malala's identity change over the course of her narrative, and is there a specific point when this happens?
What internal conflict does Malala face when she imagines that the girls at her new school treat her differently?
As explained in I Am Malala, how is the birth of a girl treated differently to the birth of a boy in Pakistan?
In I Am Malala, what does Malala relate to when she reads the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? Why does she relate to it?
How are Malala and her mother alike in the way they view helping people?
What did Malala fight for?
What words describe Malala's expression or the mood of the photograph on the cover of I Am Malala?
Where was Malala shot?
Why does Malala fight for education?
Who is Malala's grandfather?
In the book I Am Malala, what devices or techniques does Malala use in order to tell her message to her international audience? Also, in what ways did she connect herself to the audience?
On what page is the quote "Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches?"
Who is Malala named after?
How does Malala Yousafzai define terrorism in I Am Malala?
Why does she start the book with an account of her shooting?
What values did Malala get from her father?
What did Malala struggle with?
Malala divides her story into five parts. How is each part significant to the whole story?
Malala’s mother, Tor Pekai Yousafzai, cannot read or write. How has this impacted Malala’s life and her view of education for women?
Malala writes, “In Pakistan when women say they want independence, people think this means we don’t want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that. It means we want to make decisions for ourselves” (219). What is the difference? In the US, we put great stock in the idea of independence—how is our understanding of independence similar or different?
What was the first thing Malala's father did that made his own father smile?
According to Malala Yousafzai in I Am Malala, what is more powerful than guns?
What are the roles of the army in chapter 9 of I Am Malala?
What does the mufti tell Malala's father about his school?
What did the girls of the red Mosque prove?
How does the author organize information in the section "In Malala's Words"?
What school does Malala go to in I Am Malala?
After nearly two months in the hospital, Malala, her mother, and two nurses went to Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Why didn't her father go?
What does Malala request when she learns her family will be by her side in two days? How does this tie in with the overall theme of I Am Malala?
Why did the mufti try to close the Kushal School in I Am Malala?
In I Am Malala, why is there a preface and a prologue?
What happened that changed Malala's life?
Who are the main characters in I Am Malala?
How did Malala survive?
What happened when Malala returned to the Swat Valley in I Am Malala?
Where is the death threat against Malala found?
How does Malala view her school?
What is the tone for chapter 28?
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