Trench Warfare

What is the area between the front lines of the opposing sides?

• wire break

• revetment

• parapet

• no man's land

What links the front line and support trenches?

• artillery line

• support trench

• front line support

• communication trench

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

How deep was a typical trench during WWI?

• 6 ft

• 8 ft

• 10 ft

• 12 ft

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

What pest lived among the soldiers in the trenches and caused the disease known as trench fever?

• rats

• fleas

• ticks

• lice

"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

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.

What technological advance allowed some progress in advancing ground into enemy territory?

• trench blocks

• anti-aircraft artillery

• automatic machine guns

• tanks

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