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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. On the rooftop where the sniper is lying, there is a parapet. What is a parapet?
(a) An enclosed opening to the floor below.
(b) A chimney.
(c) A stairwell.
(d) A low wall at the edge of the roof.

2. Who wrote "The Sniper"?
(a) Patrick O'Flaherty.
(b) Patrick O'Connell.
(c) Liam O'Connell.
(d) Liam O'Flaherty.

3. The conflicting descriptions of the sniper that make him sound both young and mature are an example of what technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Personification.

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

5. Where does the sniper get shot?
(a) In his leg.
(b) In his arm.
(c) In his side.
(d) In his hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the risk that the sniper takes in order to check out his dead enemy's identity?

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

3. The narrator says that the sniper can hear the "dull panting" (96) of the enemy armored car. This is an example of which technique?

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

5. "His enemy had been hit" (98) is an example of what technique?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the wound that the sniper suffers.

5. How does the sniper react to being shot?

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

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

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

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

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

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