Cambridge Past Paper Questions

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

In what ways does Priestley make the relationship between Eric Birling and Eva Smith such a powerfully dramatic part of the play?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Henry V Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questio...

To what extent does Shakespeare portray King Henry's army as a 'band of brothers' in the play?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then ans...

What does Shakespeare's portrayal of Launcelot Gobbo contribute to your enjoyment of the play?

Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: The Trees The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;...

Or 2 Cold In The Earth Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee! Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my Only ...

Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: For My Grandmother Knitting There is no need they say but the needles stil...

Or 4 lion heart You came out of the sea, skin dappled scales of sunlight; Riding crests, waves of fish in your fists. Washed up, your gills snapp...

Either 5 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Pipistrelle Dusk unwinds its spool among the stems of plum-trees, sublimin...

Or 6 Catrin I can remember you, child, As I stood in a hot, white Room at the window watching The people and cars taking Turn at the traffic ligh...

Either 7 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: They had mixed grill, which Obi admitted wasn't too bad. Content remove...

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Either 9 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: After some minutes spent in this way, Miss Bertram observing the iron ga...

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Either 11 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: We found the Shimerdas working just as if it were a week-day. Marek was...

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Either 13 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Removing her eyes from him, she sat so long looking silently towards th...

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Either 15 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: Did Stephen understand at last who it was down there in the darkness, w...

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Either 17 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: The other sort of native was the kind that Thornhill had met on that fi...

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Either 19 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: I stood at the bathroom doorway and grimly waited. She finished the chi...

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Either 21 Read this extract from The People Before (by Maurice Shadbolt), and then answer the question that follows it: He had a police party out,...

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TERENCE RATTIGAN: The Winslow Boy Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer the qu...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questio...

SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 1: from Part 5 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer th...

Meeting at Night The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ri...

SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 2: from Part 2 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer th...

The Buck in the Snow White sky, over the hemlocks bowed with snow, Saw you not at the beginning of evening the antlered buck and his doe Standing ...

GILLIAN CLARKE: from Collected Poems Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 5 Read this poem, and then answer the qu...

Heron at Port Talbot Snow falls on the cooling towers delicately settling on cranes. Machinery's old bones whiten; death settles with its rusts, i...

JANE AUSTEN: Mansfield Park Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 7 Read this extract, and then answer the question...

WILLA CATHER: My Ántonia Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 9 Read this extract, and then answer the question th...

ANITA DESAI: In Custody Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 11 Read this extract, and then answer the question th...

CHARLES DICKENS: Hard Times Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 13 Read this extract, and then answer the questio...

KATE GRENVILLE: The Secret River Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 15 Read this extract, and then answer the qu...