Year 9 Practice Exam Questions: World War One Examine the following sources and use their evidence and your own knowledge to answer the questions that follow. Source C: A German soldier’s feelings on Source A: A photograph of a British Mark IV tank seeing tanks approach his trench in 1916: “Hyacinth”, 20 Nov 1917 A horrible grinding sound rumbled the ground. Occasionally the sound of groaning metal screeched into the air and echoed through our trenches. There was a frenzy of activity in our trenches and looks of panic. One of us began shouting “Monsters! Open Fire! They’re coming to get us!” but as we tried to shoot them, our bullets simply bounced off them. I was terrified. Source B: A painting of a tank crossing a trench Four hundred tanks in the line of battle. Good going, firm ground, wheel to wheel and blazing brilliant weather. They crash through the barbed wire and bridge the trenches dealing death and retribution on the way. The front line now, we swing her round, broadside on, a canister of shrapnel is poured into the huddling German troops. We trip merrily on, the six-­‐pounder volleying shell after shell into the trench. The machine gunners firing as the Germans run for it. Source D: From an article in The Fighting Forces Magazine describing a tank attack at the Battle of Amiens on 08 August 1918 Questions 1) Study Source A. What can you learn from Source A about the effectiveness of tanks during the First World War? [4 marks] 2) Study Source C. What can you learn from Source C about the impact of tanks on the German troops in November 1917? [4 marks] 3) Study Sources A, B and C. How far do these sources agree about the impact of tanks? Explain your answer by referring to points of agreement and disagreement between both sources. [6 marks] 4) Study Source D. How useful is this sources in helping you to understand the impact of tanks in 1918? [4 marks] 5) “Tanks were a decisive weapon in the final battles of the First World War.” Do you agree? Use all the sources and your own knowledge to help you explain your answer. [10 marks] Year 9 Practice Exam Questions: The Industrial Revolution Examine the following sources and use their evidence and your own knowledge to answer the questions that follow. A: From an eyewitness account in the Source Black Country in 1863 The coal is raised in skips, and so at first were the men. Another method is now employed. They insert their legs into the loops of a chain, and holding onto the main chain with their hands they are drawn up in a cluster, like a swarm of bees. In spite of many regulations, deaths by falling down the shaft are frequent. The bad air which attacks the m iner’s life in the pits is of two kinds: carbonic acid gas, or chokedamp; and carburetted hydrogen, or firedamp. These two gases work in league against the miner. When an explosion has done its work of destruction, the chokedamp rises to suffocate those whom the firedamp has spared. The only defence against these gases is a sufficient current of pure air, and the art of ventilation becomes a matter of first-­‐rate importance. Accidents from falls of coal or the roof caving in equal the sum of all the other causes together. But it is not only air, earth and fire that combine against the poor miner. Amongst the worst foe is water. Not only does the water rise so fast in some pits that an accident which stops the pumps might cause serious risk, but sometimes in the course of the workings the men come upon an underground spring which bursts upon them with fatal f orce. Source B: Numbers of deaths in Durham & Northumberland coalfields between 1799 and 1840. Cause of accident Number of Number of accidents deaths Explosions 87 1243 Suffocation by 4 18 gases Floodings from 4 83 old workings Falling of earth 15 33 Chains or ropes 19 45 breaking Being run over by 13 12 wagons Boilers bursting 5 34 Source C: A description of an explosion at Felling in 1813. The underground fire began with two heavy explosions. A slight trembling, like an earthquake, was felt for about half a mile around the workings, and the explosion, although dull was heard 3 or 4 miles away. Immense quantities of dust and coal rose high into the air, and fell in a continuous shower up to half a mile away. Source E: A picture of children working in a coal mine, c.1840 Source D: Diagram from a History textbook showing five improvements in the coal mines. Questions 1) Study Source A. List three causes of death in the coal mines. [3 marks] 2) Study Sources A and B. Do these sources agree about the causes of death in the coal mines? Explain points of agreement and disagreement. [4 marks] 3) Study Source C. How useful is Source C as evidence of how dangerous coal mining was? [4 marks] 4) “Coal mines were safe places to work.” Do you agree? Use all the sources and your own knowledge to help you explain your answer. [10 marks] Source G: A drawing showing people queuing for water in Bethnal Source F: A report in conditions in Green, London in 1863 Liverpool in the 1840s. The water is turned on a certain number of hours during the day, four hours perhaps; the poor go to the tap for it; it is constantly running; each person fetches as much as they have pans to receive; but they have not many of these and they are frequently out of water. It is not sufficient for washing or anything of that kind. 5) Study Source F. What can you learn from this source about the water supply in industrial towns? [4 marks] 6) Study sources F and G. Do these sources agree about the water supply in industrial towns? Explain points of agreement and disagreement. [4 marks] 7) How useful are sources F and G as evidence of how the poor got their water in the 19th Century? [8 marks] (NB: 4 marks for each source) H: A cartoon called “The Silent Highway Man”, published in Punch, 8) Study Source H. What can you Source learn from Source H about 1858. conditions in industrial towns? [4 marks] 9) How reliable is Source H as evidence of conditions in industrial towns? [4 marks]