GCSE
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
Monday 13 May 2025Morning 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
Section A: Shakespeare
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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,
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour,
5
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, Letting I dare not wait
upon I would, Like the poor cat
10 i’th’adage?
MACBETH Prithee,
peace. I dare do all that may become
a man; Who dares do more is none.
LADY MACBETH What beast was’t
15 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
20 place 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
25 that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in
my face,
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?
30
0 1 LADY MACBETH
StartingWe
withfail?
thisBut screw your courage
conversation, to the
explore how far Shakespeare presents Lady
Macbeth sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.
as
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
Monday 13 May 2025Morning 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
Section A: Shakespeare
Turn over ►
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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,
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour,
5
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, Letting I dare not wait
upon I would, Like the poor cat
10 i’th’adage?
MACBETH Prithee,
peace. I dare do all that may become
a man; Who dares do more is none.
LADY MACBETH What beast was’t
15 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
20 place 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
25 that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in
my face,
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?
30
0 1 LADY MACBETH
StartingWe
withfail?
thisBut screw your courage
conversation, to the
explore how far Shakespeare presents Lady
Macbeth sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.
as
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