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I Am Malala Review Chapters 10-13

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  • How did the ongoing situation in Swat affect Malala emotionally?
    She felt frustrated and saddened that girls still couldn’t freely attend school
  • What was Gul Makai?
    Gul Makai was Malala’s pseudonym when writing a diary for BBC
  • How did Malala’s public identity change after the diary’s authorship was revealed?
    She became a public figure and began openly advocating for girls’ education in the media.
  • What surprised the girls on the day of the assembly?
    A Pashto TV crew came to their school.
  • Who encouraged Malala to write the BBC diary?
    Abdul Hai Kakar, a BBC Urdu reporter, contacted her father, who then asked Malala to write it.
  • What impact did the Gul Makai diary have on awareness about Swat?
    It drew international attention to the Taliban’s oppression and the struggle for girls’ education in Pakistan
  • What remained a haven for Malala in the middle of the war?
    school
  • What did Malala's father start doing due to the danger of the war?
    He went home different ways each night in case someone was watching him.
  • Who do females not defy in Malala's culture?
    the males in their families
  • Why did Malala use a fake name for the diary?
    So the Taliban wouldn't know who wrote the diary.
  • What was Malala's request to the world?
    She requested for the world to save their schools, Pakistan, and Swat.
  • Why did Malala use a nickname?
    She used it to protect her identity.
  • Why did Fazlullah's men ban TV?
    TVs showed the Westernized world.
  • Who did the Radio Mullah say would be responsible for what happens to the girls who continue to attend school?
    parents and the school principal
  • Moniba's speech stated that Pashtuns are peace-loving people, because the world was claiming they were all... what?
    terrorists
  • What did Fazlullah's men do that made Malala not able to watch her TV show?
    They switched off all the cable channels.
  • What did Fazlullah and his men do to the girls' school in Matta?
    They blew it up.
  • What news came over Radio Mullah in December 2008?
    After January 15, no girl shall go to school.
  • How did entering the school gate on the last day of school feel like to the girls?
    a funeral
  • Why did Malala look up to Madam Maryam?
    She was her teacher; she was bright, had been to college and had a job.
  • What risks did Malala and her family face after her identity became known?
    They faced direct threats from the Taliban
  • Why did Malala’s family temporarily leave Swat?
    The fighting between the military and Taliban made it too dangerous to stay
  • What kinds of experiences did Malala describe in her Gul Makai diary?
    school closures, fear in the community, and her determination to keep learning despite Taliban threats
  • Why were many of Malala's mother's friends scandalized by her interviews on TV?
    Malala had shown her face.
  • Why did all the girls that went to the school stop wearing school uniforms?
    It was too dangerous, and the Taliban would have seen they were going to school.
  • What did Malala realize as she began to speak at the assembly?
    Her voice was the voice of so many others who wanted to speak but couldn't.
  • Who revealed Malala’s identity as the author of the BBC diary?
    Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai
  • What room did Malala began to avoid since both times her house was bombed, she was in there?
    kitchen
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