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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) Confused and frightened.
(b) Angry and eager.
(c) Intelligent and kind.
(d) Cold and fanatical.

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

3. When the enemy sniper is "silhouetted" (98), what is true?
(a) He is surrounded by a halo of light.
(b) He is a dark shape against the sky.
(c) He is too tired to stand.
(d) He is flattened up against a solid object.

4. What does the sniper do when he realizes that his enemy is dead?
(a) Calmly begins packing his things up.
(b) Vomits.
(c) Cries out joyfully.
(d) Drops to his knees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the protagonist expose his hand by draping it over the parapet?

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

3. Where does the sniper think that he might know his enemy from?

4. What do the Free Staters want?

5. In the context in which it is used in "The Sniper," how is "draught" (96) pronounced?

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