Answer the following questions using full sentences.
Your answers should be IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Please use as much detail from the story as possible. If you use a quotation from the story, explain it.
Reminder: Answering literature questions: When you answer a question about a story, make sure that you use the question as a way to begin your answer. For example…
Question: What do we learn about the sniper in the second paragraph?
Answer: In the second paragraph, we learn that the sniper…
1. What does the reader learn about the sniper in the second paragraph? Describe his character based on what you learn. (2 marks)
2. Why doesn’t the sniper feel any hesitation about killing the man in the tank or the woman informer? (1 mark)
Reread the passage in which the sniper kills his enemy with the revolver.
3. What is his first reaction when the smoke clears? (2 marks)
4. When he sees the dying soldier fall, how does his reaction change? (3 marks)
5. Why does the sniper begin to curse? (3 marks)
6. What drives the sniper to discover the identity of the enemy (why does he need to know)? What does he find out? (2 marks)
7. This story is set in Northern Ireland, a country troubled by civil war. The setting, however, is not especially important. Why not? (2 marks)
8. What is the author’s message in this story? Explain how he gets this meaning across. BE SURE TO GIVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES TO PROVE YOUR POINT. (5 marks)