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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complicates the sniper's final shot?
(a) His hunger and fatigue.
(b) The distance and his pain.
(c) The glare and noise.
(d) His confusion and fear.

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

3. What is the first physical sensation the sniper feels in the place where he has been shot?
(a) Warmth.
(b) Overwhelming pain.
(c) A sharp shock.
(d) Numbness, or absence.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the sniper eating?

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

4. Once he is wounded, what is the sniper's first priority?

5. Toward the end of the story, the sniper feels "remorse" (98). What is he feeling?

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