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Do not use pencil.  \n• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 8702/1 .  \n• Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.  \n• You must not use a dictionary.  \nInformation  \n• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.  \n• The maximum mark for this paper is 64.  \n• AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in Section A in addition to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the following skills: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.  \n• There are 30 marks for Section B.  \nThere are no questions printed on this page  \nSECTION A Question Page  \nShakespeare  \nMacbeth Romeo and Juliet The Tempest  \nThe Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing Julius Caesar  \nSECTION B  \nThe 19th-century novel  \nRobert Louis Stevenson  \nCharles Dickens  \nCharles Dickens Charlotte Brontë Mary Shelley  \nJane Austen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  \nThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll  \nand Mr. Hyde A Christmas Carol Great Expectations Jane Eyre Frankenstein Pride and Prejudice The Sign of Four  \n1  \n2 3  \n4 5  \n6  \nQuestion  \n7  \n8 9  \n10  \n11  \n12  \n13  \n4 5  \n6–7  \n8 10–11  \n12  \nPage  \n13  \n14  \n15  \n16  \n18  \n19 20–21  \nSection A: Shakespeare  \nAnswer one question from this section on your chosen text.  \nEither  \nMacbeth  \nRead the following extract from Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth and then answer the question that follows.  \nAt this point in the play, after receiving The Witches’ prophecies, Macbeth and Banquo have just been told that Duncan has made Macbeth Thane of Cawdor.  \nBANQUO  \nBut ’tis strange, And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s  \n5 In deepest consequence.– Cousins, a word, I pray you.  \nMACBETH [Aside]  \nTwo truths are told,  \nAs happy prologues to the swelling act  \nOf the imperial theme.– I thank you, gentlemen.– 10 This supernatural soliciting  \nCannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,  \nWhy hath it given me earnest of success,  \nCommencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion,  \n15 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,  \n20 Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is, But what is not.  \n 0  1  Starting with this moment in the play, explore how Shakespeare presents the attitudes of Macbeth and Banquo towards the supernatural.  \nWrite about:  \n• how Shakespeare presents the attitudes of Macbeth and Banquo towards the supernatural in this extract  \n• how Shakespeare presents the attitudes of Macbeth and Banquo towards the supernatural in the play as a whole.  \n[30 marks] AO4 [4 marks]  \nor  \nRomeo and Juliet  \nRead the following extract from Act 3 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.  \nAt this point in the play, Juliet has just been told that she must marry Paris.  \nCAPULET  \nHow now, wife,  \nHave you delivered to her our decree?  \nLADY CAPULET  \nAy, sir, but she will none, she gives you thanks. I would the fool were married to her grave.  \nCAPULET  \n5 Soft, take me with you, take me with you, wife. How, will she none? doth she not give us thanks? Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest, Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?  \nJULIET  \n10 Not proud you have, but thankful that you have: Proud can I never be of what I hate, But thankful even for hate that is meant love.  \nCAPULET  \nHo","cbCaia9dPyO9Xojj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia9dPyO9Xojj","pdf",300932,24,"English","# Section A: Shakespeare\n## Macbeth\n## Romeo and Juliet\n## The Tempest\n## The Merchant of Venice\n## Much Ado About Nothing\n## Julius Caesar\n# Section B: The 19th-century novel\n## Robert Louis Stevenson\n## Charles Dickens\n## Charlotte Brontë\n## Mary Shelley\n## Jane Austen\n## Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\n## The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\n## A Christmas Carol\n## Great Expectations\n## Jane Eyre\n## Frankenstein\n## Pride and Prejudice\n## The Sign of Four","[{\"question\":\"How many questions must be answered and from which sections?\",\"answer\":\"Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the maximum mark and how is AO4 assessed in Section A?\",\"answer\":\"The maximum mark is 64. 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