Cambridge Past Paper Questions

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

Or 6 How does Clarke create such memorable impressions of the bull in Friesian Bull? Friesian Bull He blunders through the last dream of the night....

SECTION B: PROSE CHINUA ACHEBE: No Longer at Ease Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 7 Read this extract, and the...

Or 8 Explore the ways in which Achebe powerfully depicts the conflict between Obi's love for Clara and his loyalties to his family.

JANE AUSTEN: Mansfield Park Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 9 Read this extract, and then answer the question ...

Or 10 How does Austen make the attempted staging of the play Lovers Vows such a significant part of the novel?

WILLA CATHER: My Ántonia Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 11 Read this extract, and then answer the question th...

Or 12 What does Cather's portrayal of the adult Ántonia's relationships with men make you feel towards her?

Or 14 What makes Dickens's portrayal of the circus and its people so attractive?

MICHAEL FRAYN: Spies Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 15 Read this extract, and then answer the question that f...

Or 16 Explore the ways in which Frayn makes Keith's father so frightening.

KATE GRENVILLE: The Secret River Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 17 Read this extract, and then answer the que...

Or 18 'He was a stranger to his father.' How does Grenville memorably portray the relationship between Dick Thornhill and his father, William?

R K NARAYAN: The English Teacher Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 19 Read this extract, and then answer the que...

Or 20 In what ways does Narayan strikingly portray different approaches to teaching in the novel?

from Stories of Ourselves Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 21 Read this extract from Games at Twilight (by Anit...

Or 22 In what ways does Townsend Warner criticise aspects of human nature in The Phoenix?

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

How does the writers' portrayal of Reverend Jeremiah Brown contribute to the dramatic impact of the play? Do not use the passage printed in Questio...

Do you think that Miller portrays Beatrice as a completely admirable character?

How does Rattigan make the challenges faced by women such a memorable part of the play? Do not use the passage printed in Question 5 in answering t...

To what extent do you think Shakespeare portrays Henry as a ruthless leader?

Does Shakespeare's portrayal of Malcolm suggest to you that he will make a good king?

SECTION A: POETRY SONGS OF OURSELVES VOLUME 2: from Part 2 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then a...

SECTION A: POETRY GILLIAN CLARKE: from Collected Poems Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answe...

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

SECTION B: PROSE WILLA CATHER: My Ántonia Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the ques...

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

SECTION B: PROSE CHARLES DICKENS: Hard Times Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the q...

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

SECTION B: PROSE JOHN KNOWLES: A Separate Peace Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer th...

SECTION B: PROSE ALAN PATON: Cry, the Beloved Country Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then ans...

Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer the question that follows it: Walter: [...

How does Hansberry's portrayal of Karl Lindner make him such an unpleasant character?

Does Miller's portrayal of the relationship between Catherine and Rodolpho encourage you to feel hopeful about their future happiness?

How does Rattigan make the relationship between Arthur and Grace Winslow such a fascinating part of the play?

To what extent does Shakespeare's portrayal of Lady Macbeth encourage you to feel pity for her?

In what ways does Shakespeare's portrayal of Tybalt make him such a memorable character?

Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labo...

Stormcock in Elder In my dark hermitage, aloof From the world's sight and the world's sound, By the small door where the old roof Hangs but five f...

In Mrs Tilscher's Class You could travel up the Blue Nile with your finger, tracing the route while Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery. Tana. Ethiop...

Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage from Journey (by Patricia Grace), and then answer the question that...