WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess. Miranda: Sweet lord, you play me false. Ferdinand: No, my dearest love, I would not for the world. Miranda: Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, And I would call it fair play. Alonso: If this prove A vision of the island, one dear son Shall I twice lose. Sebastian: A most high miracle! Ferdinand: Though the seas threaten, they are merciful; I have curs'd them without cause. [Kneels] Alonso: Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about! Arise, and say how thou cam'st here. Miranda: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in't! Prospero: 'Tis new to thee. Alonso: What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours; Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, And brought us thus together? Ferdinand: Sir, she is mortal; But by immortal Providence she's mine. I chose her when I could not ask my father For his advice, nor thought I had one. She Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown But never saw before; of whom I have Receiv'd a second life; and second father This lady makes him to me. Alonso: I am hers. But, O, how oddly will it sound that I Must ask my child forgiveness! Prospero: There, sir, stop; Let us not burden our remembrances with A heaviness that's gone. [from Act 5 Scene 1]

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2015). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [23-25] Band 1: Answers in this band have all the qualities of Band 2 work, with further insight, sensitivity, individuality and flair. They show sustained engagement with both text and task.
2. [20-22] Band 2: Sustains a perceptive, convincing and relevant personal response. Shows a clear critical understanding of the text. Responds sensitively and in detail to the way the writer achieves her/his effects. Integrates much well-selected reference to the text.
3. [17-19] Band 3: Makes a well-developed, detailed and relevant personal response. Shows a clear understanding of the text and some of its deeper implications. Makes a developed response to the way the writer achieves her/his effects. Supports with careful and relevant reference to the text.
4. [14-16] Band 4: Makes a reasonably developed relevant personal response. Shows understanding of the text and some of its deeper implications. Makes some response to the way the writer uses language. Shows some thoroughness in the use of supporting evidence from the text.
5. [11-13] Band 5: Begins to develop a relevant personal response. Shows some understanding of meaning. Makes a little reference to the language of the text. Uses some supporting textual detail.
6. [8-10] Band 6: Attempts to communicate a basic personal response to the task. Makes some relevant comments. Shows a basic understanding of surface meaning of the text. Makes a little supporting reference to the text.
7. [5-7] Band 7: Some evidence of simple personal response. Makes a few straightforward comments. Shows a few signs of understanding the surface meaning of the text. Makes a little reference to the text.
8. [2-4] Band 8: Limited attempt to respond. Shows some limited understanding of simple/literal meaning.
9. [0-1] Below Band 8: No answer / Insufficient to meet the criteria for Band 8.