Cambridge &amp; Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

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?

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...

Or 8 Explore the ways in which Achebe makes Obi's relationship with his father so powerful in the novel.

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...

Or 10 What impressions of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram as parents does Austen's writing create for you?