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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 complicates the sniper's final shot?
2. Why does the protagonist expose his hand by draping it over the parapet?
3. After he is wounded, the sniper feels a "paroxysm" of pain. What kind of pain is he feeling?
4. Where does the sniper think that he might know his enemy from?
5. What do the Free Staters want?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does the sniper react to being shot?
3. How does the enemy sniper manage to shoot the protagonist?
4. What happens as a result of the Republican sniper's ruse?
5. What striking contrast is there in the description that opens the story with the description that closes the first paragraph?
6. Describe the wound that the sniper suffers.
7. When the reader first encounters the sniper, what is he doing, and why?
8. What are the two contrasting descriptions of the sniper given when he is first introduced?
9. What motivates the sniper to discover the identity of the dead man, and what is that identity?
10. How does the sniper fool his enemy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The words "dead" and "deadened" occur repeatedly in the paragraphs about the sniper getting hit with a bullet. Explain the thematic purpose of this repetition.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the use of the River Liffey as a symbol in "The Sniper." Describe how it appears in the story, background information on the river, and how these two elements combine to create meaning.
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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