Q 01/05

The title I Am Malala answers a question shouted aboard a school bus in October 2012 by whom?

A) The bus driver

B) A young gunman

C) A police officer

D) A news reporter

Answer · why

B) A young gunman

A young gunman stopped the bus, asked for Malala by name and fired three shots. Her answer to the world, a year later, became the title of her memoir.

Q 02/05

What does the Pashto name Malala mean, a legacy of the folk heroine Malalai who died in battle?

A) Lion-hearted

B) Bringer of light

C) Victorious

D) Grief-stricken

Answer · why

D) Grief-stricken

Grief-stricken is what Malala means in Pashto. Her namesake, Malalai of Maiwand, is said to have raised the flag when its bearer fell in an 1880 battl...

Q 03/05

Which award did the audiobook of I Am Malala, narrated by Neela Vaswani, win in 2015?

A) An Audie

B) A Peabody

C) A Grammy

D) An Emmy

Answer · why

C) A Grammy

A Grammy for Best Children's Album went to the recording in 2015. The winner was the young readers edition of the memoir, not the original adult book.

Q 04/05

Which career did young Malala dream of before her father encouraged her to go into politics instead?

A) Doctor

B) Pilot

C) Lawyer

D) Teacher

Answer · why

A) Doctor

Doctor was the ambition she named in early interviews. In the summer of 2009, while her family was displaced by fighting in Swat, she resolved to beco...

Q 05/05

To which young writer did former US first lady Laura Bush compare Malala in a 2012 newspaper article?

A) Mary Shelley

B) Anne Frank

C) Phillis Wheatley

D) S. E. Hinton

Answer · why

B) Anne Frank

Anne Frank was already familiar to Malala: the BBC correspondent who asked her to keep a diary of life under the Taliban had told her about the girl's...