The food and the people and the population went down drarsticly and some of the ww1 was fought on the soil too......fun fact russia backed out of the ww1 and then u.s.a came in so yeah! ;3 hope this helps!
It's a skull because it states that it doesn't have eyes but he use indicates that their gone.
The answer is: figure out meaning based on what you already know and what the text says
To infer something from the passage, you need to read it and able to understand the meaning of the passage without actually put too much focus on the passage.
Passage inference could be considered as a reading skills. This usually tested when you do an SAT test to measure how much information you can gather from reading a certain text within a short period of time.