GCSE English Literature Mock Paper 1: Macbeth and A Christmas Carol
A free GCSE English Literature mock with quick knowledge questions and two extract-based essays on Macbeth and A Christmas Carol, with mark schemes and essay guidance.
- Time allowed
- 105 minutes
- Total marks
- 66
Instructions
- Answer the quick questions, then both essay questions.
- Spend about 50 minutes on each essay.
- Refer to the extract and to the play or novel as a whole.
- Essays are marked by you against the level descriptors after you finish.
Suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas. Written by MockNine; not an official exam board paper.
Your result
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1
(a)Which character says 'Out, damned spot!'?
(b)Who kills Macbeth at the end of the play?
(c)What title do the witches greet Macbeth with first?
2
(a)What is the name of Scrooge's clerk?
(b)How many spirits visit Scrooge after Marley's ghost?
(c)Which of Bob Cratchit's children is ill?
3
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come.
Starting with this extract, explore how Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a man in conflict with himself. Write about how Shakespeare presents Macbeth in this extract and in the play as a whole.
4
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Starting with this extract, explore how Dickens presents Scrooge as a character who changes. Write about how Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract and in the novel as a whole.
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