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  1. 3. Henry admired John Kwang’s ability to relate and be friends with people of different races and backgrounds. Kwang’s _______s could make them feel like they are brothers with Kwang.
  2. 5. After Kwang’s headquarters was bombed, it was decided to move their headquarters to Kwang’s _____. Things only get worse after that incident. Kwang spends time, suffering from his mental breakdown due to Eduardo’s death.
  3. 7. Henry’s father did not like consuming this product. On the other hand, Henry thinks that this item allows two people who would never be friends to build their friendship. One time, Stew and Henry opened up a casual conversation with this item.
  4. 9. This character remains faithful to Kwang from the beginning to the end of the novel. When this character finds out De Roos’s important secret, she attempts to spoil it alone so that the reputation of Kwang and other campaign members are not affected. She also tries to find Kwang when he goes missing by calling everyone and checking if they saw Kwang.
  5. 10. After a violent incident that occurred between different races in New York, Kwang tries to connect those various ethnic groups. In his speech, he claims that Koreans and ______ Americans were both enslaved by other countries and that the similarity in historical background is always stronger than the differences between the two groups.
  6. 11. Although Dennis Hoagland believes that John Kwang is not a difficult subject to spy on, he is concerned that Henry might reveal his cover when he is with John Kwang, just like what he did when Henry was in charge of spying on Dr. ______.
  7. 14. Henry refers to Jack and himself as _____. These animals “sniff” food out from other predators. They eat what is left and search for dirty leftovers. Similarly, Henry must sniff out and seek dirty information about Kwang and feed themselves with the profits that the information will bring.
  8. 16. Henry is assigned to work for Kwang’s campaign in the _____ area of New York. There, Henry gains attention and trust when he deftly deals with the angry Peruvians and sends them away with Kwang’s pamphlets.
  9. 17. This character argues that when a child is dead, it should never be considered an accident. The parents should always give enough attention and care; they should never put their children in danger.
  10. 18. Henry faces lots of issues related to _____. He was called by nicknames such as “yellow peril.” When he was young, he wanted to be a fluent English native speaker and be like the other American kids. However, at the end of the novel, Henry accepts his mixed identity.
  11. 19. Henry’s father liked to hire ___ immigrants for his shop. He realized that the ____ immigrants who couldn’t speak English worked harder than people who could speak English since the ___ immigrants were desperate for jobs. They might have had no jobs if Henry’s father fired them.
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  1. 1. Even though Henry is assigned to spy on John Kwang, he is reluctant to provide more information about Kwang to Dennis Hoagland. It is because Henry considers Kwang like a ______.
  2. 2. Henry’s ____ brother is an image of what Henry wanted to be when he was young. Henry’s _____ brother could beat up the kids that call him slanted eyes, and he was so good at running that the white kids admired him. He kissed white girls in front of everyone and knew everything about science.
  3. 4. When Henry was young, he did not like the ______ culture which encouraged people to keep everything in their minds for themselves. He wanted to be like other kids who expressed their opinions and feelings freely.
  4. 6. Chang-Rae Lee attempts to deliver Henry’s story by looking through Henry’s viewpoints. Lee has written the story like a stream of thoughts of a human mind which jumps from one idea to another. Since the story is not written in a _____ order, it may be difficult to grasp the essence of the story at the beginning of the novel.
  5. 8. Although Henry and Lelia had to go through difficulties after they lost their son, Mitt, they eventually come along well, and Henry decides to assist Lelia in teaching accurate pronunciations to foreign _____.
  6. 12. Henry suffers when he remembers small details about how Mitt died. He has trouble going to sleep, so Henry asks Lelia to lend him the ____ that Mitt took. He listens to them and remembers the good times that he spent with his family.
  7. 13. Hoagland wants the list of Kwang’s campaign donors because he thinks that the fact that Kwang receives thousands of dollars every week is very suspicious. Jack also suspects that Kwang may have huge secrets about his ____ group which, in fact, included illegal immigrants in the country. (This word is Korean)
  8. 14. This person gets very angry when he finds out that Eduardo was killed. This person wants payback for his investment, so this person slips detailed information about Kwang’s donors.
  9. 15. The readers can observe that Henry’s interactions with other Koreans often include the use of Korean phrases or sentences to let the readers deeply engage with Henry’s Korean identity. Those phrases or sentences are written in ______ to indicate that they are not English.
  10. 16. Lelia was sarcastic when she said, “oh good, it’s the Henryspeak.” Lelia knows that Henry has been lying to her and trying to keep his job a secret. Thus, she describes Henry as a “_____ speaker of language” in the list that she gives to Henry before she goes on a vacation to the islands in Italy. Unlike Henry, Lelia believes that it is a misdeed for Henry to continue working for the job.