Short-answer question (SAQ)
"Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?"
- Unit 8
- 3 points
- About 13 minutes
You read one source and answer three short parts (A, B and C) about it, each in a few sentences. Each part asks you to describe or explain something about the source or the history around it. On the exam: 3 required questions in 40 minutes (Section I, Part B), 20% of the score. Starting May 2027 every SAQ has a source: question 1 a secondary text, question 2 a primary text, question 3 a non-text source such as an image, map or chart.
The question and its sources
Use the image described below to answer all parts of the question that follows. On the exam you would see the image itself; here it is described in words.
Image
A color poster showing a comfortable living room. A father in a suit sits in a large armchair. His young daughter sits on his lap with an open picture book and looks up at him. On the floor at his feet, his son kneels and plays with toy soldiers and a toy cannon.
The father looks out toward the viewer, his hand at his chin, with a serious, pensive expression. The caption at the bottom, with "YOU" underlined, reads: "Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?"
Source: Savile Lumley, artist, recruitment poster published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Poster No. 79), London, 1915. Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co.
Suggested time: 13 minutes
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Part (a)
1 pointDescribe the purpose of the poster.
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Part (b)
1 pointExplain how the poster reflects the British government's situation in 1915.
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Part (c)
1 pointExplain ONE way the First World War changed the role of European governments on the home front in the period 1914–1918.
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