Q.1
In the decades before the war the Suffragette Movement was campaigning to get votes for women. What did they do at the outbreak of war?
  • They campaigned against the fighting
  • They suspended all protests
  • They urged women not to work
  • They campaigned to recruit soldiers
Q.2
As men left home to fight in the war, women were needed to replace them. How many women joined the labour-force during the war?
  • 400,000 women
  • 800,000 women
  • 1,200,000 women
  • 1,600,000 women
Q.3
As well as working as nurses and teachers, women took up work in traditionally masculine jobs. In what area did the largest proportion work?
  • Factory work
  • Mining
  • Farming
  • Manual labouring
Q.4
Working in munitions factories could be dangerous to women's health. Exposure to chemicals often turned women's skin yellow, earning them what nickname?
  • China Girls
  • Lemon Girls
  • Canary Girls
  • Banana Girls
Q.5
The move of women into manual work saw the virtual end of which occupation, a major source of employment for women prior to the war?
  • Nanny
  • Domestic servant
  • Stay-at-home mother
  • Laundress
Q.6
Dorothy Lawrence impersonated a man so that she could serve as a soldier. What became of her when her true identity was discovered?
  • She was signed up as an official soldier
  • She was sent back home
  • She was hailed as an example to British women
  • She was held as a prisoner of war
Q.7
Flora Sandes was the only British woman to serve as an official soldier during the war, though not in the British army. Which country's army did she join?
  • Serbia
  • Austria
  • Russia
  • Italy
Q.8
Many thousands of women served in the war zone as nurses. One British lady, Edith Cavell, worked as a nurse in Belgium at the start of the war after the Germans had invaded. She was executed on 12th October 1915 by the Germans, on what charge?
  • That she was a spy
  • That she had treated enemy soldiers
  • That she had helped soldiers to escape the country
  • That she had organised terrorist plots against the Germans
Q.9
When men returned home from the battlefield after the war, what new cause did women have to protest?
  • Demand for equal pay
  • The loss of their jobs
  • Demand for maternity leave
  • The loss of Trade Union protection
Q.10
Women were finally given the vote in the first general election to be held after the war, but not all of them. What age must a woman have reached in order to vote?
  • 21
  • 25
  • 27
  • 30
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