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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. How does the sniper get off of the rooftop?
(a) By jumping to a lower building.
(b) Through a skylight.
(c) By the ladder he has with him.
(d) Via a set of fire stairs.

2. Why is the sniper eating?
(a) Another soldier has just brought him food.
(b) He has been too busy until now.
(c) He just remembered that he should.
(d) He was too excited to eat earlier.

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

4. What does the sniper do when he realizes that the old woman is an informant?
(a) Curses her.
(b) Moves his position.
(c) Writes down her name to give to his field commander.
(d) Shoots and kills her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the reader know the sniper's age?

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

3. What does the sniper drop to the ground?

4. What do the Free Staters want?

5. What does the sniper do when he realizes that his enemy is dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the sniper react to being shot?

3. What motivates the sniper to get himself back under control?

4. What problem is created by the sniper's wound?

5. What striking contrast is there in the description that opens the story with the description that closes the first paragraph?

6. What happens as a result of the Republican sniper's ruse?

7. How does the sniper fool his enemy?

8. In the sentence "Almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof," (96), what is being personified and what purpose does the personification of the bullet serve?

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

10. What risk does the sniper take at the beginning of the story, and what are the consequences?

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