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Homework: Surviving Shell Shock 2024

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Question 6
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In at least one complete sentence, please describe what "Shell shock" is in your own words.

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Question 1
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As stated in the text, what was the primary cause of Shell shock?

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Testimony #1

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Testimony #2

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Testimony #3

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Question 2
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What is the correct definition of the word "trenches?"


Question 3
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It can be reasonably inferred from Testimony #2 that "speechlessness" is...

Question 4
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It can be most reasonably inferred that the sentence:

"But he’d been sitting there apparently a long, long time and no-one seemed to have taken much notice of him."

spoke to how this soldier was...


Question 5
5.

When Edwin Bigwood uses phrases such as,

"we'd rather lose a leg",
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"we didn't mind being wounded... it was the dread of being shell shocked"

which statement best embodies how soldiers viewed Shell shock?

A ditch created in the ground during war time for soldiers to hide in and attack from.
grateful for doctors visits.
ignored by medical staff because of how still he was.
happy to be alive.
There was a divide between those in favor and against this label.
Soldiers did not want to be stigmatized with this label.
Soldiers found honor in this label.