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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Sniper".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the sniper's eyes described?
(a) Cold and fanatical.
(b) Intelligent and kind.
(c) Confused and frightened.
(d) Angry and eager.

2. The description of the car "panting" (96) suggests what about the situation?
(a) The technology they have available is primitive.
(b) The soldiers are exhausted.
(c) The air is thick with smoke from the British artillery.
(d) The fighting is animalistic.

3. Where does the sniper think that he might know his enemy from?
(a) He has suddenly realized that the man might be on the Republican side.
(b) He thinks that they may have gone to school together.
(c) He thinks it is possible that they served together in the same unit of the army.
(d) He is beginning to suspect that the dead sniper is his brother.

4. Who wrote "The Sniper"?
(a) Liam O'Flaherty.
(b) Patrick O'Connell.
(c) Patrick O'Flaherty.
(d) Liam O'Connell.

5. Why does the enemy sniper stand up and expose his position?
(a) He believes that the protagonist will honor the white flag.
(b) He believes the protagonist to be dead.
(c) He is ready to give up.
(d) He is startled by shooting in the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the risk that the sniper takes in order to check out his dead enemy's identity?

2. At the end of the story, the reader learns that the story has been taking place on the corner of what street?

3. "His enemy had been hit" (98) is an example of what technique?

4. How does the reader know the sniper's age?

5. What does the sniper do when he realizes that his enemy is dead?

(see the answer key)

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