QUIZ
WW1 Medicine
Answer the following questions as you listen to the video. It may help to read through the questions
before the video begins.
1. What new breakthrough helped more people survive surgery during the war?
The discovery of antiseptics.
The use of bandages.
A thorough understanding of the ‘humours’ of the body.
2. What operation were doctors able to perform for the first time during WW1?
Chemotherapy
Blood transfusions
Stem Cell therapy
3. What did army commanders and doctors learn to provide in order to keep soldiers’ bodies healthy?
Good food and condition, cleaner water and better treatment for illness and injury.
A stress-free environment.
Daily exercise for the body and meditation for the mind.
4. At the beginning of the war, many people expected the British army to be home by
.
Easter
New Years Day
Christmas
5. What year did the war end?
1918.
1945.
1897.
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6. How many British soldiers were killed during WW1?
100
500,000
Over 880,000
7. Much of the fighting took place in
in France and Belgium.
Forests
Trenches
Cities
8. What are trenches?
Trenches are like large ditches dug into the ground to protect soldiers from gunfire.
Trenches are a type of helmet that bullets can’t pierce.
Trenches are a kind of weapon that the British army used.
9. What illnesses were common among soldiers in the trenches?
Dysentery, typhus and typhoid.
Dragon bites, splinching and vanishing sickness.
Cancer, muscular sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
10. What is the place called ‘No Man’s Land’?
The stretch of land between the British army’s trenches and the enemy’s trenches.
A nation that has not chosen a side in the war.
Any unoccupied stretch of land.
11. Where are soldiers with serious wounds taken?
Local hospitals in enemy cities
Field hospitals
There was no hospital available to help soldiers with serious injuries
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12. What did soldiers call a ‘blighty’?
A bad wound
A missing soldier
A spirit that haunts the trenches
13. What is ‘shell-shock’?
A cooking method for shellfish
A type of mental illness
A game popular among the soldiers
14. What is the name of the poem that inspired Linda Newbery to write Tilly’s Promise?
Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
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ANSWER KEY
WW1 Medicine
Answer the following questions as you listen to the video. It may help to read through the questions
before the video begins.
1. What new breakthrough helped more people survive surgery during the war?
The discovery of antiseptics.
The use of bandages.
A thorough understanding of the ‘humours’ of the body.
2. What operation were doctors able to perform for the first time during WW1?
Chemotherapy
Blood transfusions
Stem Cell therapy
3. What did army commanders and doctors learn to provide in order to keep soldiers’ bodies healthy?
Good food and condition, cleaner water and better treatment for illness and injury.
A stress-free environment.
Daily exercise for the body and meditation for the mind.
4. At the beginning of the war, many people expected the British army to be home by
.
Easter
New Years Day
Christmas
5. What year did the war end?
1918.
1945.
1897.
www.barringtonstoke.co.uk
Page 1 of 3
6. How many British soldiers were killed during WW1?
100
500,000
Over 880,000
7. Much of the fighting took place in
in France and Belgium.
Forests
Trenches
Cities
8. What are trenches?
Trenches are like large ditches dug into the ground to protect soldiers from gunfire.
Trenches are a type of helmet that bullets can’t pierce.
Trenches are a kind of weapon that the British army used.
9. What illnesses were common among soldiers in the trenches?
Dysentery, typhus and typhoid.
Dragon bites, splinching and vanishing sickness.
Cancer, muscular sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
10. What is the place called ‘No Man’s Land’?
The stretch of land between the British army’s trenches and the enemy’s trenches.
A nation that has not chosen a side in the war.
Any unoccupied stretch of land.
11. Where are soldiers with serious wounds taken?
Local hospitals in enemy cities
Field hospitals
There was no hospital available to help soldiers with serious injuries
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12. What did soldiers call a ‘blighty’?
A bad wound
A missing soldier
A spirit that haunts the trenches
13. What is ‘shell-shock’?
A cooking method for shellfish
A type of mental illness
A game popular among the soldiers
14. What is the name of the poem that inspired Linda Newbery to write Tilly’s Promise?
Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
www.barringtonstoke.co.uk
Page 3 of 3