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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the risk that the sniper takes in order to check out his dead enemy's identity?
(a) He crosses the street.
(b) The body is in the opposite direction from his route back to his commander.
(c) He knows that the street may be mined.
(d) He has to pass by a group of civilians.

2. When he finally gets a clear shot at his enemy, what is the protagonist feeling?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Eagerness.

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

4. Where does the sniper think that he might know his enemy from?
(a) He is beginning to suspect that the dead sniper is his brother.
(b) He thinks it is possible that they served together in the same unit of the army.
(c) He has suddenly realized that the man might be on the Republican side.
(d) He thinks that they may have gone to school together.

5. What does the sniper drop to the ground?
(a) His rifle.
(b) His field glasses.
(c) His jacket.
(d) His revolver.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of day does the story begin?

2. When the enemy sniper is "silhouetted" (98), what is true?

3. What does the sniper take a risk to do after he finishes eating?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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