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BBFs_Prologue & Chapter 1

Across
What shiny symbolic objects did many of the college educated waiters at the hotel have?
"The Annawardians' deferential term for a rich man, sa'ab, was not the proper term in the city's moneyed quarters...[The waiters say it makes you sound D-class--like a thug, a ________],...[The right word is sir]" (Boo 9).
Why did Abdul's family know many of the policemen who visited them every other day?
What animal was troublesome to Abdul and other inhabitants of Annawadi?
Why did Abdul regret not having his pants?
Who wanted to become Annawaldi's first female college student?
Who was the only witness that saw Abdul go into hiding?
What allusion does Boo use to depict the waste-pickers as they returned home with their sacks of trash?
"A decent life was the train that hadn't hit you, the slumlord you hadn't offended, the __________ you hadn't caught" (Boo xx).
What celestial object did Abdul dislike in the prologue?
Why did Zehrunisa habitually curse Abdul in the morning?
What did 1991 mark in India regarding their economy? (Hint: Boo 6)
What didn't Abdul know how to do regarding the police?
"Some people in this slum wished his [Abdul's] family ill because of the old Hindu-Muslim _____________" (Boo x).
Who is Abdul's only "sort of" friend?
What color is symbolically associated with Annawadi?
What is the antonym for alertness that had affected Abdul for the first time when the One Leg accused him of burning her?
Who broke the barrier between the slum world and the rich world?
What term is used to describe the common area of the slums?
What was Abdul's operating principal or mantra? "Avoid _______" (Boo xi)?
What inflated the price of scrap metal worldwide in 2008?
Down
In what format did the owners of the recycling plants demand waste?
What color "kurtkas" do the recycling owners wear symbolically?
Who was the "potty-mouth" haggler in Abdul's family?
What political figure "...retained a fondness for Hitler's program of ethnic cleansing" (Boo 12)?
What body part stuck out when Sita/Fatima walked which made people laugh?
"Every house was off-kilter, so less off-kilter looked straight. Sewage and sickness looked like life" (Boo 5). What literary technique is the author applying is the aforementioned quote?
What quality did Abdul consider himself to be 90%?
What color did schoolwork turn Abdul's snot?
"[Everything around us is roses]" is how Abdul's younger brother, Mirchi, put it. [And we're the _____ in between" (Boo xii).
Why did Raul's mother, Asha, scare Abdul's parents?
Who implicated Abdul in the crime that resulted in the police search?
What does Abdul ironically do at the conclusion of the prologue?
What was Sunil's dream?
Why did the airport spew the most waste during the winter season?
What modern reason made people in the slums resent Abdul's family?
What smell did the one-leg exude initially, before the burning, that troubled Abdul and of which Zehrunisa disapproved?
What made new India late?
Whose assassination anniversary celebration created an employment opportunity?
What allusion to a popular girls' toy is used to create irony?
For whom does Abdul have the deepest affection?