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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The description of the car "panting" (96) suggests what about the situation?
(a) The technology they have available is primitive.
(b) The air is thick with smoke from the British artillery.
(c) The fighting is animalistic.
(d) The soldiers are exhausted.

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

4. What finally changes the way that the sniper is feeling?
(a) The sounds of the battle beginning to fade.
(b) The death of the turret gunner.
(c) The death of the enemy sniper.
(d) Being shot.

5. What bridge is near the sniper's position?
(a) Nine Arches.
(b) O'Connell.
(c) Lifford.
(d) Craigavon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sniper's face is described as "ascetic" (96). What does this imply about the sniper?

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

3. What do the Republicans want?

4. When the sniper turns over the body of his enemy, whom does he discover it to be?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the enemy sniper manage to shoot the protagonist?

2. What causes the sniper to suddenly lose his enthusiasm for the battle?

3. Who is the protagonist of "The Sniper" and what is he fighting for?

4. What is the setting of "The Sniper"?

5. When the reader first encounters the sniper, what is he doing, and why?

6. What motivates the sniper to discover the identity of the dead man, and what is that identity?

7. Describe the wound that the sniper suffers.

8. What is the sniper drinking, and what evidence does the reader have that it is affecting his judgement?

9. What are the two contrasting descriptions of the sniper given when he is first introduced?

10. Who does the sniper kill while he is still waiting to kill the enemy sniper, and why does he kill them?

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