AQA A-Level English Literature A Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts (2B), June 2025
Every question from AQA A-Level English Literature A Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts (2B), June 2025 (7712): 18 questions, 450 marks, each with its mark scheme and topic.
- Question 1 25 marks
Examine the significance of the collection’s title, Feminine Gospels, writing about at least two poems in your answer.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Feminine Gospels
- Question 2 25 marks
Examine the view that Feminine Gospels is 'a collection dominated by grief and mourning', referring to at least two poems.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Feminine Gospels
- Question 3 25 marks
Examine the significance of Sheers' representation of Wales in Skirrid Hill, writing about at least two poems.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Skirrid Hill
- Question 4 25 marks
Examine the significance of time in Owen Sheers' poetry collection Skirrid Hill, referring to at least two poems.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Skirrid Hill
- Question 5 25 marks
Explore the significance of the struggle for identity in an unseen extract from William Boyd's novel 'Restless'.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day
- Question 6 25 marks
Compare the significance of the struggle for identity in two other texts you have studied, using one drama text and one prose text.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · The Handmaid’s Tale · Waterland · Top Girls · A Streetcar Named Desire · Spies · One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest · The God of Small Things · The Help · The Color Purple · Oranges are not the Only Fruit · Revolutionary Road · Translations · All My Sons · Our Country’s Good · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Question 7 25 marks
Examine the significance of the play's title, A Streetcar Named Desire.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · A Streetcar Named Desire
- Question 8 25 marks
Examine the view that Tennessee Williams presents Stanley's confidence and self-belief as admirable in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · A Streetcar Named Desire
- Question 9 25 marks
Examine the significance of the relationship between Marlene, Joyce and Angie in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Top Girls
- Question 10 25 marks
Examine the significance of marriage in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Top Girls
- Question 11 25 marks
Explore the significance of the struggle for identity in the extract from William Boyd's 'Restless'.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day
- Question 12 25 marks
Compare the significance of the struggle for identity in two other texts you have studied, using one prose text and one poetry text (at least one written post-2000, writing about at least two poems).
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Feminine Gospels · Skirrid Hill · The Handmaid’s Tale · The Color Purple
- Question 13 25 marks
Examine the significance of the relationship between Tom and Mary Crick in Graham Swift's Waterland.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Waterland
- Question 14 25 marks
Examine the significance of teachers and teaching in Waterland.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Waterland
- Question 15 25 marks
Examine the significance of the novel's title, The Handmaid's Tale.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · The Handmaid’s Tale
- Question 16 25 marks
Examine the significance of freedom in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, with reference to Aunt Lydia's words comparing 'freedom to' and 'freedom from'.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · The Handmaid’s Tale
- Question 17 25 marks
Explore the significance of the struggle for identity in the extract from William Boyd's novel Restless.
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day
- Question 18 25 marks
Compare the significance of the struggle for identity in two texts (one drama and one poetry, with at least one written post-2000).
Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day · Feminine Gospels · Skirrid Hill · Top Girls · A Streetcar Named Desire · Translations · All My Sons · Our Country’s Good · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof