Free Eduqas GCSE English Literature (C720) Exam Questions and Answers

Romeo and Juliet. Read the extract on the opposite page. Benvolio By my head, here comes the Capulets. Mercutio By my heel, I care not. Tybalt Follow me close, for I will speak to them. Gentlemen, good den; a word with one of you. Mercutio And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something, make it a word and a blow. Tybalt You shall find me apt enough to that sir, an you will give me occasion. Mercutio Could you not take some occasion without giving? Tybalt Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo. Mercutio Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick, here’s that shall make you dance. ’Zounds, consort! Benvolio We talk here in the public haunt of men. Either withdraw into some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances, Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us. Mercutio Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I. Enter Romeo Tybalt Well, peace be with you sir, here comes my man. Mercutio But I’ll be hanged sir, if he wear your livery. Marry go before to field, he’ll be your follower; Your worship in that sense may call him man. Tybalt Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than this-thou art a villain. Romeo Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell, I see thou knowest me not. Tybalt Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries That thou hast done me, therefore turn and draw. Look at how the characters speak and behave here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part of the play? Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

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Write about Juliet and how she is presented at different points in the play. 5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

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Macbeth. Read the extract on the opposite page. Ross Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner, Were on the quarry of these murdered deer To add the death of you. Malcolm Merciful heaven! What! man; ne’er pull your hat upon your brows, Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Macduff My children too? Ross Wife, children, servants, all That could be found. Macduff And I must be from thence! My wife killed too! Ross I have said. Malcolm Be comforted. Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge, To cure this deadly grief. Macduff He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? Malcolm Dispute it like a man. Macduff I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee. Naught that I am, Not for their own demerits, but for mine, Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now. Malcolm Be this the whetstone of your sword, let grief Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it. Look at how the characters speak and behave here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part of the play? Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

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Write about the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and how it is presented at different points in the play. 5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

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Othello. Read the extract on the opposite page. Enter Lodovico, Desdemona and Attendants Iago ’Tis Lodovico. This comes from the Duke. See, your wife is with him. Lodovico Save you, worthy general. Othello With all my heart, sir Lodovico The Duke and senators of Venice greet you. [Gives him a letter] Othello I kiss the instrument of their pleasures. [Opens the letter, and reads] Desdemona And what’s the news, good cousin Lodovico? Iago I am very glad to see you, signor: Welcome to Cyprus. Lodovico I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio? Iago Lives, sir. Desdemona Cousin, there’s fall’n between him and my lord An unkind breach; but you shall make all well. Othello Are you sure of that? Desdemona My lord? Othello [Reads] This fail you not to do as you will — Lodovico He did not call; he’s busy in the paper. Is there division ’twixt my lord and Cassio? Desdemona A most unhappy one. I would do much T’atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Othello Fire and brimstone! Desdemona My lord? Othello Are you wise? Desdemona What, is he angry? Lodovico Maybe the letter moved him. For as I think, they do command him home, Deputing Cassio in his government. Desdemona By my troth, I am glad on’t Othello Indeed? Desdemona My lord? Othello I am glad to see you mad. Desdemona Why, sweet Othello — Othello [Strikes her] Devil! Desdemona I have not deserved this. Lodovico My lord, this would not be believed in Venice, Though I should swear I saw’t. ’Tis very much. Make her amends; she weeps. Othello O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. Out of my sight! Desdemona I will not stay to offend you. [Goes] How does Shakespeare create mood and atmosphere for an audience here? Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

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Write about Iago and how he is presented at different points in the play. 5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

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Much Ado About Nothing. Read the extract below. Benedick: How doth the lady? Beatrice: Dead I think. Help, uncle! Hero! Why Hero! Uncle! Signor Benedick! Friar! Leonato: O Fate, take not away thy heavy hand. Death is the fairest cover for her shame That may be wished for. Beatrice: How now cousin Hero? Friar: Have comfort lady. Leonato: Dost thou look up? Friar: Yea, wherefore should she not? Leonato: Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny The story that is printed in her blood? Do not live Hero, do not ope thine eyes. For did I think thou wouldst not quickly die, Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames, Myself would on the rearward of reproaches Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one? Chid I for that at frugal nature’s frame? O one too much by thee — why had I one? Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes? Why had I not with charitable hand Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates, Who smirched thus and mired with infamy, I might have said ‘No part of it is mine; This shame derives itself from unknown loins’? But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on; mine so much That I myself was to myself not mine, Valuing of her — why she? O she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again And salt too little which may season give To her foul tainted flesh. Look at how Leonato speaks and behaves here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part of the play? Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

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Write about Benedick and how he is presented at different points in the play. 5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

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Henry V. Read the extract below. King Henry: This day is called the Feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day and comes safe home Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall see this day and live old age Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ‘Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.’ Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’ Old men forget, yet all shall be forgot But he’ll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers — For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile This day shall gentle his condition — And gentlemen in England, now abed, Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s Day. Look at how King Henry speaks and behaves here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part of the play? Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

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How does Shakespeare present war in Henry V? Refer to characters and events from the play in your answer. 5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

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