GCSE
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
Monday 13 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Do not use pencil.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 8702/1.
• Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.
• You must not use a dictionary.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 64.
• AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in Section A in addition
to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the following skills: use a range of
vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and
punctuation.
• There are 30 marks for Section B.
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SECTION A
Shakespeare Question Page
Macbeth 1 4–5
Romeo and Juliet 2 6
The Tempest 3 7
The Merchant of Venice 4 8
Much Ado About Nothing 5 9
Julius Caesar 6 10
SECTION B
The 19th-century novel Question Page
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll 7 12–13
and Mr. Hyde
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 8 14–15
Charles Dickens Great Expectations 9 16–17
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 10 18
Mary Shelley Frankenstein 11 19
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 12 20
Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four 13 22–23
Turn over for Section A
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Section A: Shakespeare
Answer one question from this section on your chosen text.
Either
0 1 Macbeth
Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 7 of Macbeth and then answer the question
that follows.
At this point in the play, Macbeth has decided that he is no longer prepared to carry out
the plan to murder King Duncan.
LADY MACBETH Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
And wakes it now to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time,
5 Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour,
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
10 Letting I dare not wait upon I would,
Like the poor cat i’th’adage?
MACBETH Prithee, peace.
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
15 LADY MACBETH What beast was’t then
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man.
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place
20 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.
They have made themselves and that their fitness now
Does unmake you. I have given suck and know
How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
25 Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn
As you have done to this.
MACBETH If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH We fail?
30 But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
Monday 13 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Do not use pencil.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 8702/1.
• Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.
• You must not use a dictionary.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 64.
• AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in Section A in addition
to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the following skills: use a range of
vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and
punctuation.
• There are 30 marks for Section B.
IB/M/Jun24/G4008/E5 8702/1
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There are no questions printed on this page
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SECTION A
Shakespeare Question Page
Macbeth 1 4–5
Romeo and Juliet 2 6
The Tempest 3 7
The Merchant of Venice 4 8
Much Ado About Nothing 5 9
Julius Caesar 6 10
SECTION B
The 19th-century novel Question Page
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll 7 12–13
and Mr. Hyde
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 8 14–15
Charles Dickens Great Expectations 9 16–17
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 10 18
Mary Shelley Frankenstein 11 19
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 12 20
Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four 13 22–23
Turn over for Section A
Turn over ►
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Section A: Shakespeare
Answer one question from this section on your chosen text.
Either
0 1 Macbeth
Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 7 of Macbeth and then answer the question
that follows.
At this point in the play, Macbeth has decided that he is no longer prepared to carry out
the plan to murder King Duncan.
LADY MACBETH Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
And wakes it now to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time,
5 Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour,
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
10 Letting I dare not wait upon I would,
Like the poor cat i’th’adage?
MACBETH Prithee, peace.
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
15 LADY MACBETH What beast was’t then
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man.
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place
20 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.
They have made themselves and that their fitness now
Does unmake you. I have given suck and know
How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
25 Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn
As you have done to this.
MACBETH If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH We fail?
30 But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.
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