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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters 19 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Part II of I Am Malala?
(a) The Valley of Death.
(b) Between Life and Death.
(c) Three Girls, Three Bullets.
(d) I Am Afraid.

2. What did Malala's father believe to be the root of all of Pakistan's problems, according to Malala in Chapter 3: “Growing Up in a School”?
(a) Lack of natural resources.
(b) Religion.
(c) Government corruption.
(d) Lack of education.

3. The television correspondent Mehboob that called Ziauddin in Chapter 19: “A Private Talibanization” was the nephew of whom?
(a) Akbar Khan.
(b) Zahid Khan.
(c) Azaday Khan.
(d) Saeed Ramzan.

4. What is the Pashtun word for "falcon" that Malala's father used for a time as his last name?
(a) Shaheen.
(b) Makkam.
(c) Shayatin.
(d) Sharia.

5. Who was the philanthropist that Ziauddin got to pay for him to produce leaflets about educating the poor in Chapter 6: “Children of the Rubbish Mountain”?
(a) Shabbaz Sharif.
(b) Faiz Mohammad.
(c) Azaday Khan.
(d) Colonel Junaid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first school blown up by the Taliban that Malala describes in Chapter 11: “The Clever Class”?

2. What are the names of Malala's younger brothers?

3. How old does Malala say she was when the Taliban came to the valley where her family lived in Chapter 9: “Radio Mullah”?

4. What cousin of Malala's did her family meet up with in Abbottabad in Chapter 15: “Leaving the Valley”?

5. Who was Fazlullah's spokesman that the Pakistan army claimed to have in custody in Chapter 16: “The Valley of Sorrows”?

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