Teachers
Wives and MothersWork and LeisurePolitics and PacifismQuiz

Women and war quiz

Now you know all about women and war try this quiz to test yourself. Read the statements and then decide if they are true or false...


  1. Women worked in the gas works during World War Two.
    true false
  2. People had the same amount of food during World War Two as they had before.
    true false
  3. All the suffragettes agreed with World War One.
    true false
  4. In the 1980s women chained themselves to fences to protest against nuclear missiles.
    true false
  5. Alice Mahon demonstrated against the Iraq War.
    true false
  6. The First World War didn't affect women's chances of marrying and having children.
    true false
  7. During the Second World War women were needed to work in the emergency services.
    true false
  8. After the First World War women were given the vote.
    true false
  9. A spinster is a women who is married.
    true false
  10. The Greenham Common Peace camp always included men and women.
    true false