Native Speaker Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. When Mitt’s ________ confronted one of the Mitt’s bullies, he “inexplicably exploded, chopping the air with his worn fingers, cursing red-faced like a cheated peasant in our throaty mother tongue until the bewildered child began to cry” (104).
  2. 3. As Henry doesn’t meet Hoaglangd’s expectations and attempts to form a closer relationship with Kwang, “[Dennis frowns] a little, [showing] his ________ Jack-face” (169).
  3. 4. John believes in the theory of _________. He suggests every politician in the city wants the same thing. For instance, politicians want safe streets and intensive academic education.
  4. 7. Miss Haven, who taught English to Henry, utilized a special method of teaching sounds through hands-on experience. For instance, she encouraged the students to touch her throat to feel the _________ of certain sounds.
  5. 9. After MItt’s death, Henry and Lelia have a conversation about considering the _________. While Lelia proposes it, Henry opposes it.
  6. 10. A Filipino-American therapist to whom Henry was assigned. He received some support to recover from his past.
  7. 13. While eating breakfast with Janice, Henry responds that “I creaked the lid of my _______” in order to metaphorically infer his expertise in faking/lying.
  8. 15. While Henry takes a break from his work and enjoys his time with Lelia in the hotel, he watches the news stories on TV. Then he realizes that Kwang’s office was destroyed in an _______.
  9. 16. “Lelia was sitting on the grass, cradling Mitt’s dead blue head in her arms and lap and rocking on her knees” (105). Mitt died from a stupid ________.
  10. 18. Kwang hesitates to run for _______ as the vandalism arises due to the conflict between Korean merchants and African Americans.
  11. 19. Janice’s behavior of concealing Kwang’s dirt that may influence his reputation in the election by revealing De Roos’s extramarital affair.
  12. 20. Mitt, Henry and Lelia’s son, dies at the age of ___________.
Down
  1. 2. “There were ___________ against the callousness of Korean merchants and the unjust acquittal of the Korean store owner who’d shot and killed Saranda Harlans” (192)
  2. 5. Henry’s friend perceives the housekeeper as a ________ because he thinks that the housekeeper wouldn’t be able to adjust to the American culture.
  3. 6. Henry works as a spy under ______.
  4. 8. Henry enjoys this activity with Stew (Lelia’s father) because it was something he didn’t experience with his father. In fact, his father “never learned to enjoy the taste of liquor or the causal slip of conversation that alcohol made possible between people who would never otherwise be friends” (120)
  5. 11. John criticizes the American community that “it is still a ________ world” (195).
  6. 12. Henry’s father invites a housekeeper to the U.S. from Korea to take care of young Henry. What does Henry call this woman by?
  7. 14. Street-filling crowds and vandalism arose to discourage Kwang, They held multiple _________.
  8. 17. Young Henry created an __________________ who had some great athletic traits, as well as the wisdom and power to be unaffected by the racial discrimination against Asians and lead the socialization of the school community.