Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Prologue-Part 1: “Before the Taliban”

Reading Check

1. Where does Malala live?

2. Who is Moniba?

3. How does Malala feel about school?

4. Where do the majority of children in Malala’s hometown get their education?

Multiple Choice

1. What is purdah?

A) the practice of women keeping covered or secluded from men

B) the practice of revenge

C) a traditional dish made with lamb and rice

D) a valley in the northwest region of Afghanistan

2. What job does Malala’s father hold?

A) imam in the local mosque

B) writer for the city newspaper

C) principal and teacher at the Khushal School

D) doctor at the nearby health clinic

3. How does seeing the poor children picking through trash at the dump affect Malala?

A) She feels discouraged about the educational system.

B) She wants to help make the world better.

C) She hopes the children find good things to sell.

D) She wants to give them jobs at the school.

4. Why do the mufti and community elders come to Malala’s home?

A) to warn them about increasing restrictions 

B) to convince Malala’s father to join the governing group of elders