Daily Practice · GCSE
May 1959 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1959Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 2nd May 1959Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 3rd May 1959What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 4th May 1959Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 5th May 1959Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 6th May 1959Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 7th May 1959How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 8th May 1959Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 9th May 1959Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 10th May 1959How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 11th May 1959Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 12th May 1959Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 13th May 1959Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 14th May 1959Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 15th May 1959What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 16th May 1959Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 17th May 1959Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 18th May 1959Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 19th May 1959Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 20th May 1959Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 21st May 1959Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 22nd May 1959Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 23rd May 1959How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 24th May 1959True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 25th May 1959Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 26th May 1959What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 27th May 1959Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 28th May 1959Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 29th May 1959In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 30th May 1959Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 31st May 1959What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?