Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions
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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...
How does Shakespeare make Calphurnia and Portia so significant in the play? Support your ideas with details from the play.
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...
How does Shakespeare make Sebastian and Antonio such memorable villains? Support your ideas with details from the play.
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...
Explore the ways in which Wilde makes Cecily such an amusing character. Support your ideas with details from the writing.
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,...
Explore the ways in which Hardy memorably conveys feelings about the passage of time in In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'.
How does Hardy powerfully convey feelings about growing old in either ‘I Look into My Glass' or During Wind and Rain?
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...
Explore the ways in which Judith Wright conveys her admiration of the snake in Hunting Snake.
How do the poets communicate a vivid sense of the past to you in both Horses (by Edwin Muir) and The Planners (by Boey Kim Cheng)?
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...
Which of the male characters in the book do you find most admirable? Support your answer with details from Dangarembga's writing.
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.' Do you think this is a fair comment about MamaPapa? Support your ideas with details from Desai's writing.
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,...
Explore the ways in which Desai makes fun of Mr. Chawla. Support your ideas with details from the novel.
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...
How does Eliot make Dolly Winthrop so memorable for you? Support your ideas with details from the novel.
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...
How does Hill make Hooper such a terrifying figure in the novel? Support your ideas with details from the writing.
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...
What makes The Rain Horse (by Ted Hughes) so shocking? Support your ideas with details from the writing.
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...