Paper 2

Question 1

Arthur Birling: As if we were

Answer 1

all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense

Question 2

Arthur Birling: There’ll be

Answer 2

a public scandal

Question 3

Arthur Birling: The famous

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younger generation who know it all. And now they can’t even take a joke

Question 4

Mrs Birling: I consider

Answer 4

I did my duty

Question 5

Mrs Birling: [enters briskly and

Answer 5

self-confidently, quite out of key]

Question 6

Mrs Birling: I don’t suppose for a moment

Answer 6

that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class

Question 7

Mrs Birling: He certainly didn’t

Answer 7

make me confess

Question 8

Sheila Birling: Look mummy -

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isn’t it a beauty?

Question 9

Sheila Birling: But these girls aren’t

Answer 9

cheap labour - they’re people

Question 10

Sheila Birling: [rather wildly,

Answer 10

with laugh] No, he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves

Question 11

Sheila Birling: What he made me

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feel. Fire and blood and anguish

Question 12

Eric Birling: Why shouldn’t they

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try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices

Question 13

Eric Birling: She was pretty

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and a good sport

Question 14

Eric Birling: But don’t forget I’m

Answer 14

ashamed of you as well - yes both of you

Question 15

Eric Birling: I did what

Answer 15

I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her

Question 16

Gerald Croft: [the easy, well-

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bred, young man about town]

Question 17

Gerald Croft: We’re respectable

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citizens and not criminals

Question 18

Gerald Croft: She looked young

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and fresh and charming

Question 19

Gerald Croft: Everything’s alright now,

Answer 19

Sheila [holds up the ring] what about this ring?

Question 20

Inspector: Public men,

Answer 20

Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges

Question 21

Inspector: It’s better to

Answer 21

ask for the earth than to take it

Question 22

Inspector: As if she were

Answer 22

an animal, a thing, not a person

Question 23

Inspector: We are members

Answer 23

of one body

Question 24

Inspector: If men will not

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learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

Question 25

I met a traveller | Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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from an antique land

Question 26

And wrinkled lip, | Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer 26

and sneer of cold command

Question 27

The hand that | Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer 27

mocked them, and the heart that fed

Question 28

Look on my works, | Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer 28

ye Mighty, and despair!

Question 29

Of that | Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer 29

colossal wreck

Question 30

Our brains ache Wearied | Exposure - Wilfred Owen

Answer 30

in the merciless iced east winds that knive us.... Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent

Question 31

Dawn massing Attacks | Exposure - Wilfred Owen

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in the east her melancholy army Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey

Question 32

So we drowse, | Exposure - Wilfred Owen

Answer 32

sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses - Is it that we are dying?

Question 33

Therefore, | Exposure - Wilfred Owen

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not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born, For love of God seems dying.

Question 34

Pause over | Exposure - Wilfred Owen

Answer 34

half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens.

Question 35

Bullets smacking the | Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes

Answer 35

belly out of the air- He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm

Question 36

In what cold | Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes

Answer 36

clockwork of the stars and the nations Was he the hand pointing that second?

Question 37

Then the shot-slashed | Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes

Answer 37

furrows Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide Open silent, its eyes standing out

Question 38

King, honour, | Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes

Answer 38

human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm

Question 39

His terror's | Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes

Answer 39

touchy dynamite

Question 40

On another occasion, | Remains - Simon Armitage

Answer 40

we get sent out

Question 41

I see every | Remains - Simon Armitage

Answer 41

round as it rips through his life

Question 42

One of my mates | Remains - Simon Armitage

Answer 42

goes by and tosses his guts back into his body

Question 43

And the drink | Remains - Simon Armitage

Answer 43

and the drugs won't flush him out

Question 44

But near to the | Remains - Simon Armitage

Answer 44

knuckle, here and now, his bloody life in my bloody hands

Question 45

Spasms of | Poppies - Jane Weir

Answer 45

paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer

Question 46

Blackthorns of your hair. | Poppies - Jane Weir

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All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting

Question 47

threw / it open, | Poppies - Jane Weir

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the world overflowing like a treasure chest

Question 48

After you'd gone, | Poppies - Jane Weir

Answer 48

I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage

Question 49

The dove | Poppies - Jane Weir

Answer 49

pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch. I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind

Question 50

In his darkroom | War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy

Answer 50

he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Question 51

A priest | War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy

Answer 51

preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass

Question 52

A half-formed ghost. | War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy

Answer 52

He remembers the cries of this man's wife, how he sought approval

Question 53

The reader's eyeballs | War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy

Answer 53

prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers

Question 54

From the aeroplane | War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy

Answer 54

he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care

Question 55

Paper that lets | Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

Answer 55

the light shine through, this is what could alter things

Question 56

If buildings were paper, | Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

Answer 56

I might feel their drift, see how easily they fall away on a sigh

Question 57

Maps too. | Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

Answer 57

The sun shines through their borderlines

Question 58

Find a way to | Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

Answer 58

trace a grand design with living tissue

Question 59

And thinned to be | Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

Answer 59

transparent, turned into your skin

Question 60

Her father embarked | Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

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at sunrise, with a flask, a samurai sword

Question 61

Like a huge flag | Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

Answer 61

waved first one way, then the other in a figure of eight

Question 62

The loose silver | Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

Answer 62

of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous

Question 63

Only we children | Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

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still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent

Question 64

And sometimes, | Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

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she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die