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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the area between the front lines of the opposing sides?
wire break
revetment
parapet
no man's land
- 2. Multiple Choice
What links the front line and support trenches?
artillery line
support trench
front line support
communication trench
- 3. Multiple Choice
A break in the barbed wire to allow soldiers out into no man's land is called:
trench break
wire block
trench block
wire break
- 4. Multiple Choice
How deep was a typical trench during WWI?
6 ft
8 ft
10 ft
12 ft
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the "sapping" method of constructing trenches?
building a trench as deep as possible
building trenches in straight lines parallel to enemy front lines
building trenches using a series of tunnels
building trenches by extending one end of an existing trench
- 6. Multiple Choice
What pest lived among the soldiers in the trenches and caused the disease known as trench fever?
rats
fleas
ticks
lice
- 7. Multiple Choice
"Your feet swell to two or three times their normal size and go completely dead. You could stick a bayonet into them and not feel a thing. ... It is then that the intolerable, indescribable agony begins. I have heard men cry and even scream with the pain and many had to have their feet and legs amputated."
The quote above most likely is referencing:
trench rot
frostbite
poor medical practices during amputations
trench foot
- 8. Multiple Choice
Classifying the western front during WWI as a "war of attrition" means that:
it was based on large, highly structured military formations from both sides facing each other head on
it was based on a deadlock where neither side can progress.
it was based on movement and consisted of a pattern or action and reaction where both sides advance at the same time.
it was based around which side could survive the longest and which side would give in.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What technological advance allowed some progress in advancing ground into enemy territory?
trench blocks
anti-aircraft artillery
automatic machine guns
tanks
- 10. Multiple Choice
To confine a blast from an exploding shell to only a small part of the trench, they were constructed:
vertical to opposing enemy lines
with built in trench blocks
horizontal to opposing enemy lines
in zig-zag patterns
- 11. Multiple Choice
Why were German trenches generally better built than French and British trenches?
French and British saw trenches as short term
Germans saw trenches as long term
neither answer is correct
both answers are correct
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