Cambridge Past Paper Questions

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Then Mother Agnes came round the corner and down the passage, walking in long, ru...

Explore the ways in which Desai makes any two moments in the novel particularly amusing for you. (Do not use the extract printed in Question 22 in ...

You are Mrs Patton. Arun has just left to go back to the dorm. Write your thoughts.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: At this everyone nodded their heads. Content removed due to copyright restrictio...

How do you think Desai makes Sampath so likeable even though he is so useless and lazy? Support your ideas with details from the writing.

You are Pinky. You have just heard about Sampath's behaviour at the wedding party. Write your thoughts.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: When Marner's sensibility returned, he continued the action which had been arrest...

'I don't pretend to be a good fellow but I'm not a scoundrel.' How far does Eliot make you agree with Godfrey's opinion of himself? Support your i...

You are Dolly. You are on your way home after your first visit to Silas with Aaron and the lard-cakes. Write your thoughts.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Kingshaw stood on the gate for a long time, looking up the ploughed field ahead. ...

How do you think Warings contributes to the power of the novel? Support your ideas with details from Hill's writing.

You are Hooper after your first encounter with Kingshaw. Write your thoughts.

Read this extract from Sandpiper (by Ahdaf Soueif), and then answer the question that follows it: Yes, I am sick – but not just for home. I am sic...

Explore how the writers make the endings of Her First Ball (by Katherine Mansfield) and At Hiruhamara (by Penelope Fitzgerald) so effective for you.

You are Muni in A Horse and Two Goats. You are on your way home to tell your wife that you have sold your goats to the American. Write your thoughts.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Chris: I know all about the world. I know the whole crap story. Content removed ...

The setting of Miller's play is 'the back yard of the Keller home in the outskirts of an American town'.

You are Kate Keller. You have just heard that Ann Deever is coming to visit.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Casca: You pull'd me by the cloak. Would you speak with me? Brutus: Ay, Casca; te...

You are Brutus in your tent the night before the battle at Philippi. You have seen Caesar's Ghost.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Ferdinand: O, if a virgin, And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you The Q...

You are Stephano. Caliban has just suggested the plot to overthrow Prospero.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Jack: How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible t...

You are Miss Prism. You are returning from the vestry where you have been waiting for Dr. Chasuble. You are on your way to the room where everyone ...

Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: The Going Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn,...

Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: A Birthday My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot; My hea...

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Seeing my father cry, seeing my mother moan and rock in Maiguru's arms, hearing N...

You are Tambu's mother. Babamukuru has just driven you back to your home after the birth of your son Dambudzo.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: There followed an embarrassing scene, but it did not have to do with the shade: ...

'Useless parents.'

You are Uma. You have just said goodbye to Aruna and her children Aisha and Dinesh after their visit.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: In desperation, the family called upon Dr Banerjee from the clinic in the bazaar,...

You are Sampath. Your father has just attempted and failed to introduce you to the girl he wants you to marry.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: The Squire had laid down his knife and fork, and was staring at his son in amazem...

You are Nancy Cass. You are on your way to see Silas about adopting Eppie.

Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Kingshaw leaped up, maddened by Hooper's voice, going on and on. He stood over hi...

You are Fielding on the evening after you have shown Hooper the farm.

Read this extract from My Greatest Ambition (by Morris Lurie), and then answer the question that follows it: Now let me properly introduce my fath...