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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the Republicans want?
(a) A united Ireland under joint rule between the British and the Irish.
(b) A divided Ireland, one part ruled by Ireland, one part ruled by Britain.
(c) A united Ireland under Irish rule.
(d) A united Ireland under British rule.

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

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

5. As a result of taking a risk in order to see his dead enemy's body, what happens to the sniper?
(a) Nothing: he gets away with it.
(b) He is shot at.
(c) He has to kill another civilian.
(d) He sets off a bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sniper do when he realizes that the old woman is an informant?

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

3. Once his enemy has died, the sniper begins to "gibber" (98). What is he doing?

4. What is the sniper drinking?

5. In the opening of the story, machine guns fire "spasmodically." How are they firing?

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