. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A. “machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs
barking on lone farms. Republicans and Free Staters were waging civil war.”
(Paragraph 1)
B. “The armored car had retired speedily over the bridge, with the machine
gunner’s head hanging lifeless over the turret. The woman’s corpse lay still in
the gutter.” (Paragraph 15)
C. “His ruse had succeeded. The other sniper, seeing the cap and rifle fall, thought
that he had killed his man. He was now standing before a row of chimney pots,
looking across, with his head clearly silhouetted against the western sky.”
(Paragraph 18)
D. “he felt a sudden curiosity as to the identity of the enemy sniper whom he had
killed... He wondered did he know him. Perhaps he had been in his own
company before the split in the army.” (Paragraph 25)