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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the risk that the sniper takes in order to check out his dead enemy's identity?
(a) He crosses the street.
(b) He has to pass by a group of civilians.
(c) He knows that the street may be mined.
(d) The body is in the opposite direction from his route back to his commander.

2. When the sniper turns over the body of his enemy, whom does he discover it to be?
(a) His own brother.
(b) His priest.
(c) A total stranger.
(d) His commander.

3. Once he is wounded, what is the sniper's first priority?
(a) He needs medical attention.
(b) He needs to get off the roof before dawn.
(c) He needs to find and kill the old woman.
(d) He needs to report to his field commander.

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

5. "His enemy had been hit" (98) is an example of what technique?
(a) Passive voice.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Honorific diction.
(d) Charged language.

Short Answer Questions

1. The name of the street gives the reader what important piece of information?

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

3. After he is wounded, the sniper feels a "paroxysm" of pain. What kind of pain is he feeling?

4. How are the sniper's eyes described?

5. What is the source of the sniper's respect for his fallen enemy?

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