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8th Grade Reading
I Am Malala Chapters 2 & 3 Comprehension
Question | Answer |
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Where did Malala's family go every spring and fall that was her favorite? | Shangla, the mountain village where her parents grew up. |
Where was the small village located in Pakistan? | Up in the Mountains. |
Why did Malala's family go to Shangla? | To celebrate Big Eid and Small Eid with family and friends. |
What did Malala's family bring to Shangla and why? | Presents for her relatives and gifts of foods and medicines they could not get in the village. |
What did Malala call the bus taking her family to Shangla? | The Flying Coach |
How long did the trip to Shangla take? | 4 hours |
What did her cousins consider Malala as because she did not go barefoot and she wore clothes from a bizarre? | a city girl |
What pretend game did Malala play with her cousins when she visited them for a holiday? | wedding |
How did Malala feel while she was in Shangla? | Free |
What couldn't most of the girls from the village do? This also included Malala's mom which was an unspoken sadness between them. | read |
What did the boy in "Shaka Laka Boom Boom" have in which Malala was obsessed with owning? | a magic pencil |
When Malala took the garbage to the dump, what made her jump? | a girl digging in the trash |
By taking the trash to the dump, and seeing the situation at hand, what message did this give to Malala? | That she had to do something to change the world. |
After she took her father back to the dump, what did she notice about her father as they walked back to their home? | a look of determination that he was going to help. |
Why did some of the long-time students not return to the school her father owned? | Some of the rich parents took their children to another school, because they would not share a school with the children whose parents clean their houses. |