A2 Unit 4 Shakespeare overview quiz - WJEC A-Level English Literature quiz

Closed-book, with an extract printed in Section A

Fully open-book, with an annotated play allowed in

Open-book for the essay but closed for the extract

There is no exam; the Shakespeare unit is coursework

A comparison of two unseen poems

A whole-play essay on a critical view

An analysis of a printed extract from the set play

An essay on a pre-1900 prose novel

As a lyric poem, ignoring the staging entirely

As dramatic verse and staged action, including the verse line

As a historical document about Shakespeare's own life

As prose, analysing only the meaning of the words

The exact running time of the scene on stage

The number of actors available to the company

Nothing; verse and prose are interchangeable

A change of register or a character unravelling

It assesses only spelling, punctuation and grammar

It is the only unit with no analysis of method at all

It assesses AO4 comparison between two plays

It assesses AO5, different interpretations, alongside AO1 to AO3

As a fact to accept and agree with throughout

As irrelevant to the answer you want to write

As an interpretation to weigh and reach a judgement on

As a summary of the plot to be retold in order

Exploring texts informed by different interpretations

Spelling and punctuation accuracy across the essay

The longest possible list of quotations from the play

A neutral plot summary with no argument at all

Setting two different readings against each other to weigh them

Using a critical reading to test the quoted view

Dropping critics' names in without using their readings

Letting the clash of interpretations deepen the debate

Because the whole play, beyond the printed extract, is from memory

Because the examiner supplies the full text on request

Because no detail from the play is ever needed

Because only the extract matters and the play does not

The footnotes printed at the bottom of the page

The meaning beneath the words, what is implied not said

The stage directions printed in italic type

The list of characters at the front of the play

As a separate opening paragraph of biography

Where it sharpens a reading of the extract or the debate

By ignoring it, since AO3 is not assessed here

By listing every fact about Shakespeare's era

Reaching a judgement on the quoted view

Narrating the plot instead of arguing and engaging interpretations

Supporting claims with dramatic method and recalled detail

Setting different readings against each other

Two hours, worth 20% of the A level

Three hours, worth 50% of the A level

One hour, worth 10% of the A level

Ninety minutes, worth 15% of the A level