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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What nearby area of the city is under heavy fire?
2. What river is near the sniper's position?
3. In what city does "The Sniper" take place?
4. How does the sniper get off of the rooftop?
5. When the enemy sniper is "silhouetted" (98), what is true?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the reader first encounters the sniper, what is he doing, and why?
2. 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?
3. Who does the sniper kill while he is still waiting to kill the enemy sniper, and why does he kill them?
4. Who is the protagonist of "The Sniper" and what is he fighting for?
5. What problem is created by the sniper's wound?
6. What are the two contrasting descriptions of the sniper given when he is first introduced?
7. What risk does the sniper take at the beginning of the story, and what are the consequences?
8. What is the sniper drinking, and what evidence does the reader have that it is affecting his judgement?
9. What striking contrast is there in the description that opens the story with the description that closes the first paragraph?
10. What causes the sniper to suddenly lose his enthusiasm for the battle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the symbolic value of the description of setting in the story's opening paragraph.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the symbolic significance of the sniper's bullet injury and his treatment of it. Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claim.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the last line of the story "The Sniper." Be sure to include a discussion of the layers of meaning in the word "brother" and to explain how this line impacts the overall meaning of the story.
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