Cambridge Past Paper Questions

You are Lord Emsworth in The Custody of the Pumpkin. You have just finished talking with Mr Donaldson of Donaldson's Dog-Biscuits.

SECTION A: POETRY THOMAS HARDY: from Selected Poems Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer t...

SECTION A: POETRY from JO PHILLIPS ed: Poems Deep & Dangerous Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and the...

SECTION A: POETRY SONGS OF OURSELVES: from Part 4 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer the...

SECTION B: PROSE JANE AUSTEN: Northanger Abbey Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the...

SECTION B: PROSE TSITSI DANGAREMBGA: Nervous Conditions Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then a...

SECTION B: PROSE ANITA DESAI: Fasting, Feasting Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer th...

SECTION B: PROSE HELEN DUNMORE: The Siege Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the ques...

SECTION B: PROSE GEORGE ELIOT: Silas Marner Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the qu...

SECTION B: PROSE SUSAN HILL: I'm the King of the Castle Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then a...

SECTION B: PROSE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Re...

SECTION B: PROSE from Stories of Ourselves Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract from The Fly in the Oint...

ARTHUR MILLER: All My Sons Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows ...

ARTHUR MILLER: All My Sons

J. B. PRIESTLEY: An Inspector Calls Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the question that...

J. B. PRIESTLEY: An Inspector Calls

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the quest...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the qu...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the question that fo...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

OSCAR WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the ques...

OSCAR WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest

Either 1 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: For Heidi Wit...

Or 2 Explore the ways in which Mew movingly writes about her feelings of loss in The Trees Are Down. The Trees Are Down – and he cried with a lou...

Either 3 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Last Sonnet ...

Or 4 Explore the ways in which Sitwell uses imagery to powerful effect in Heart and Mind. Heart and Mind Said the Lion to the Lioness–'When you a...

Either 5 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Miracle on St...

Or 6 Explore the ways in which Clarke powerfully depicts the nature of the bird in Buzzard. Buzzard No sutures in the steep brow of this cranium,...

Either 7 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: The doctor...

Or 8 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. The men of Umuofia describe Obi as foolish. How far does Achebe lead you to agre...

Either 9 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: At last th...

Or 10 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. To what extent does Austen persuade you that there is anything to admire about ...

Either 11 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: On the mo...

Or 12 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Explore the ways in which Cather makes Lena Lingard such a likeable character.

Either 13 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: The searc...

Or 14 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. In what ways does Eliot movingly portray the challenges Silas faces in becoming...

Either 15 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: And once ...

Or 16 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. How does Frayn make Keith's mother such a fascinating person for Stephen?

Either 17 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: As the Qu...

Or 18 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. In what ways does Grenville strikingly portray the injustices of the English le...

Either 19 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Half an h...

Or 20 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Explore the ways in which Narayan vividly conveys the lessons Krishna learns fr...

Either 21 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract from Tyres (by Adam Thorpe), and then answer the question...

Or 22 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Explore the ways in which one of the writers of the stories in this selection m...

J LAWRENCE & RE LEE: Inherit the Wind Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer th...

In what ways do the writers make Hornbeck's role in the play so striking?

ARTHUR MILLER: A View from the Bridge Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer th...

How does Miller powerfully convey to you the rules Eddie's community lives by?