Shakespeare overview quiz - Eduqas GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 1, Section B

Component 2, Section A

Component 1, Section A

Component 2, Section B

Two questions, choose one

Three questions, choose two

A choice between an extract and an essay

One question, no choice

An extract-based question on the extract and the play as a whole

A comparison of two different Shakespeare plays you have studied

A creative continuation

A multiple-choice test

AO1

AO4

AO2

AO3

Because the whole Shakespeare question is set as a multiple-choice test on the play

Because context is not assessed

Because the whole-play material is closed book and must come from memory

Because the extract is not printed

As the entire answer, with nothing written about the rest of the play at all

As a plot summary

As a list of characters

As a springboard into tracing the idea across the whole play

How Shakespeare builds character and theme: verse and prose, soliloquy, imagery, antithesis, structure and stagecraft

The actor's performance only

The number of acts

The particular theatre and acting company that the play was originally written for and first performed in by Shakespeare and his fellow players

A clear summary of all the main events of the plot that have happened so far in the play

Private access to a character's true thoughts, creating intimacy and dramatic irony

A list of themes

A change of scene

As a separate paragraph of historical background placed at the start of the answer

As Shakespeare's biography

As a clause embedded inside analysis where it changes the reading

It should be avoided entirely

All of it, spending the whole answer closely analysing only the printed extract

None of it

Exactly half

Roughly the first third, leaving the rest for the whole play