I am Malala Parts 3 & 4 Quiz Review

BBC diary

The BBC asked if someone (a teacher / student) at the Khushal School was willing to write this to chronicle what life was like under Taliban rule

pink shalwar kamiz

What Malala wears in an act of defiance leading up to the last day of school

Gul Makai

Malala’s pseudonym for her diary; means “corn flower”

Ugly Betty

American TV show; showed Malala that while women had rights in the US, they were still not completely equal

National Peace Prize

first award Malala was nominated for in 2011

Desmond Tutu

-South African bishop; anti-apartheid activist

-presented Malala with the international peace prize of Kids Rights

death threat

-the Taliban stated on the internet that Malala should be killed 

-proves they saw her as a threat

shoe

Malala envisions hitting a Talib with this object but then realizes this would be “stooping to their level”; instead, she will fight with “peace and dialogue”

White Palace

-hotel where the girls go on a field trip after Fazlullah’s reign ends; described as “unearthly” and looks like it’s “floating on a cloud”

photo-copied letter

-stated that the Khushal School was obscene and vulgar

-spreading rumors that the girls were acting improper on their field trip

-someone had been spying on them while they were at the White Palace

Pakistani Studies exam

-Malala is worried about this exam on the day she is shot; she needs to do well on it to take the number one spot from Malka-e-Noor

battle in Mingora

Taliban retreated and the Pakistani army took control

goat’s head

-upon returning to Mingora, Malala and her family find these inside the Khushal school

-soldiers from the army had been using the school as a base and this had been their dinner

mango tree

-Malala plants a seed outside her house because she knew it would take a long time to grow; symbolizes her faith that Swat was finally at peace/ ready to be rebuilt

monsoons

-major flooding occurred in 2010 due to torrential rain

-destroyed homes/ schools

-nearly 2,000 people drowned

Terrorists Wanted

the phrase written on the sign that Malala sees from the bus just before she is shot

school bus

-Moniba suggests they wait for the second pickup so she and Malala can keep talking

-Atal refuses to ride with the girls and says he’ll walk home

-where Malala was shot

aba

father in Urdu

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

dyna

an open-backed van or truck

elated

filled with joy

Karachi

capital city of Sindh, Pakistan

pseudonym

fake name; alias

sharia

all aspects of life are dictated by Islamic religion

tapa

a couplet of poetry

Urdu

national language of Pakistan

wrath

strong, fierce anger