AS-Level OCR 2025 English Literature H072/01

Oxford Cambridge and RSA

Thursday 15 May 2025 – Morning
AS Level English Literature
H072/01 Shakespeare and poetry pre-1900
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes


You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Bt
AS-Level OCR 2025 English
Literature H072/01




INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section 1 and one in Section 2.

INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 60.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 12 pages.

ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.




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Section 1 – Shakespeare Question Page

Coriolanus 1 3

Hamlet 2 3

Measure for Measure 3 4

Richard Ill 4 4

The Tempest 5 4

Twelfth Night 6 5




Section 2 – Poetry pre-1900 Question Page

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale 7 6

John Milton: Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10 8 8

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems 9 9

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud 10 10

Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems 11 12




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