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2. What mental illness was caused by being constantly subjected to the danger of enemy shelling and snipers and the sound of artillery bombardments?

  • swine flu
  • depression
  • schizophrenia
  • shell shock
  • trech foot
  • trench mouth

3. How many casualties were expected in an advance?

  • hundreds
  • thousands
  • one or two
  • tens of thousands
  • fifty
  • twenty

4. What unwanted animals could be found in the trenches?

  • rats and mice
  • pigeons and seagulls
  • rats and lice
  • cats and dogs
  • lice and flees

5. Why were the rats as big as cats in the trenches?

  • they had extra fat to keep them warm in the harsh weather
  • they feasted on dead bodies
  • they were really cats but looked like rats
  • the soldiers kept them as pets and fed them
  • they were German rats
  • they got lots of muscle from running across no man's land

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