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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the protagonist expose his hand by draping it over the parapet?
(a) To make it look like he has been shot.
(b) He is unaware that he has done so.
(c) He needs to risk it in order to get his gun.
(d) To show a white flag.

2. The sniper's face is described as "ascetic" (96). What does this imply about the sniper?
(a) He has conflicting emotions about the act of killing.
(b) He is not fully aware of the damage that the war will do.
(c) He is able to discipline himself and sacrifice for his beliefs.
(d) He does not have the same ability to empathize as most people do.

3. What word (or a variation of it) is repeated several times after the sniper is shot?
(a) Broken.
(b) Dead.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Ireland.

4. How does the sniper get off of the rooftop?
(a) Through a skylight.
(b) By jumping to a lower building.
(c) Via a set of fire stairs.
(d) By the ladder he has with him.

5. In the opening of the story, machine guns fire "spasmodically." How are they firing?
(a) With a deep reverberating sound.
(b) Loudly.
(c) In brief bursts with no regular pattern.
(d) Continuously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the sniper decide that it is safe to move from the rooftop?

2. What do the Free Staters want?

3. What finally changes the way that the sniper is feeling?

4. When the enemy sniper is "silhouetted" (98), what is true?

5. What is the only description given of the old woman?

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