Practice Paper 1 - This is what the questions look like!

English Literature

Unit 2: Understanding Poetry

Higher Tier

Tuesday 17 January 2012 – Morning

Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

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SECTION A: UNSEEN POEM

Read the following poem and answer Question 1:

What has happened to Lulu?

What has happened to Lulu, mother?

What has happened to Lu?

There’s nothing in her bed but an old rag-doll

And by its side a shoe.

Why is her window wide, mother,

The curtain flapping free,

And only a circle on the dusty shelf

Where her money-box used to be?

Why do you turn your head, mother,

And why do tear drops fall?

And why do you crumple that note on the fire

And say it is nothing at all?

I woke to voices late last night,

I heard an engine roar.

Why do you tell me the things I heard

Were a dream and nothing more?

I heard somebody cry, mother,

In anger or in pain,

But now I ask you why, mother,

You say it was a gust of rain.

Why do you wander about as though

You don’t know what to do?

What has happened to Lulu, mother?

What has happened to Lu?

Charles Causley

*1 Explore how Charles Causley presents the thoughts and feelings of the speaker in the

poem ‘What has happened to Lulu?’.

Use

evidence from the poem to support your answer.

(Total for Question 1 = 20 marks)

TOTAL FOR SECTION A = 20 MARKS

 

SECTION B: ANTHOLOGY POEMS

Collection B: Clashes and Collisions

Answer Question 3, parts (a) and (b). There is a choice of questions in part (b).

(a) Explore how the writer conveys her thoughts and feelings about the coming of

war in ‘Invasion’.

Use evidence from the poem to support your answer.

(15)

EITHER

(b) (i) Compare how the writers explore different thoughts and feelings about the

coming of war in ‘O What is that Sound’ and ‘Invasion’.

Use evidence from the poems to support your answer.

You may include material you used to answer 3(a).

(15)

OR

(ii) Compare how the writer of one poem of your choice from the ‘Clashes

and Collisions’ collection explores different ideas about war from those in

‘Invasion’.

Use evidence from the poems to support your answer.

You may include material you used to answer 3(a).

(15)

(Total for Question 3 = 30 marks)