Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello Remember to support your ideas with details from the text.

Or 2 Explore the ways in which Wright makes Request To A Year both amusing and serious. Request To A Year If the year is meditating a suitable gift...

Or 4 Explore the ways in which Joyce powerfully depicts the speaker's dream in I Hear an Army... I Hear an Army... I hear an army charging upon the...

Or 6 How does Hughes make the thoughts and feelings of the speaker so disturbing in The Other? The Other She had too much so with a smile you took ...

Or 8 In what ways does Adichie encourage you to admire Jaja?

Or 10 How far does Dickens make it possible for you to have sympathy for Estella?

Or 12 Explore the ways in which du Maurier presents Rebecca's wickedness.

JHUMPA LAHIRI: The Namesake Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 13 Read this passage, and then answer the question...

Or 14 In what ways does Lahiri memorably portray the marriage between Ashoke and Ashima?

Or 16 Explore the ways in which Lindsay makes Albert such a memorable character.

YANN MARTEL: Life of Pi Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 17 Read this passage, and then answer the question tha...

Or 18 Explore the ways in which Martel portrays Pi as such a likeable character. Do not use the passage printed in Question 17 when answering this ...

H G WELLS: The War of the Worlds Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 19 Read this passage, and then answer the que...

Or 20 Explore the ways in which Wells makes the Martians so terrifying.

Or 22 How does Gilman strikingly portray the widow's three children in The Widow's Might?

WOLE SOYINKA: Death and the King's Horseman Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: A Streetcar Named Desire Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

SECTION A: POETRY Answer one question from this section. SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 2: from Part 3 Remember to support your ideas with details from ...

SECTION A: POETRY Answer one question from this section. TED HUGHES: from New Selected Poems Remember to support your ideas with details from the w...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. CHINUA ACHEBE: Things Fall Apart Remember to support your ideas with details from the writi...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. ANITA DESAI: Fire on the Mountain Remember to support your ideas with details from the writ...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. CHARLES DICKENS: Great Expectations Remember to support your ideas with details from the wr...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. DAPHNE DU MAURIER: Rebecca Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Re...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. HARPER LEE: To Kill a Mockingbird Remember to support your ideas with details from the writ...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. JOAN LINDSAY: Picnic at Hanging Rock Remember to support your ideas with details from the w...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. H G WELLS: The War of the Worlds Remember to support your ideas with details from the writi...

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. from STORIES OF OURSELVES Volume 2 Remember to support your ideas with details from the wri...

SHELAGH DELANEY: A Taste of Honey Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Antony and Cleopatra Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Howard: 'Cause you gotta admit, business is business. Willy: [angrily] Bu...

What do you think Uncle Ben contributes to the dramatic power of the play? Support your ideas with details from the play.

You are Charley. You have just given Willy money to pay his insurance and he has left. Write your thoughts.

Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Oldham, September 1987. The backyard of Doris's terrace cottage. Distant ...

How far does Keatley make you sympathise with Jackie? Support your ideas with details from the play.

You are Margaret. You have just learned that your daughter, Jackie, is pregnant. Write your thoughts.

Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Benedick: How doth the lady? Beatrice: Dead, I think. Help, uncle! Hero! ...

Does Shakespeare make you feel any sympathy for Claudio? Support your answer with details from the play.

You are Dogberry. You and the Watch have just handed over Borachio to Leonato. Write your thoughts.

Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it: King Edward: Why, so. Now have I done a good day's work. You peers, conti...

Explore how Shakespeare makes the characters and situation of the two Princes (Edward, Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York) so sad for you.

You are Richard on the night before your coronation. Write your thoughts.

Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Hibbert: I've a perfect right to go sick if I want to. The men can why ca...

Explore how Sherriff vividly portrays in the character of Stanhope the pressures of being in command. Support your ideas with details from the play.

You are Osborne at the end of Act 1. You have just got into your bed. Write your thoughts.

Read these lines from In Memoriam and then answer the question that follows: Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves...

What does Tennyson make you feel about Ulysses as a leader? Support your answer with details from the poem Ulysses.

Tennyson asked for Crossing the Bar to be placed at the end of editions of his poetry. What is there about this poem, do you think, that makes it s...

Read this poem and then answer the question that follows it: On The Grasshopper and The Cricket The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the bi...

Explore how the poets' words create striking pictures of the world at night in Amends (by Adrienne Rich) and Dover Beach (by Matthew Arnold).