IGCSE World Literature (0408) — May–June 2025, Paper 32
12 questions · every question answerable online with instant point-by-point AI marking against the official mark scheme.
Start with Question 1 →Read this extract from Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, and then answer the question that follows it. The extract is a tense bedside scene in which Amanda's mother (Carla) urges…
Answer this question and get it marked →Read this extract from Ama Ata Aidoo's play Anowa, and then answer the question that follows it. The extract is the opening of the scene 'On the Highway', set on a road…
Answer this question and get it marked →Read this extract from Fabio Geda's In the Sea There are Crocodiles, and then answer the question that follows it. The extract describes a perilous sea crossing: out on the water…
Answer this question and get it marked →Read this extract from Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard, and then answer the question that follows it. In the extract Lopakhin bluntly warns Mrs Ranevsky and Gayev that…
Answer this question and get it marked →Read this poem, Eel Tail by Alice Oswald (from Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2, Part 2), and then answer the question that follows it. The poem evokes the elusive, half-glimpsed…
Answer this question and get it marked →Read this extract from A Walk to the Jetty by Jamaica Kincaid (from Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2), and then answer the question that follows it. In the extract the young…
Answer this question and get it marked →How does Schweblin powerfully portray the relationship between Carla and David? Do not use the extract printed in Question 1 in answering this question. [25]
Answer this question and get it marked →In what ways does Aidoo create memorable impressions of Badua? [25]
Answer this question and get it marked →Explore how Geda powerfully portrays Enaiat's hopes for a better life. Do not use the extract printed in Question 3 in answering this question. [25]
Answer this question and get it marked →Explore how Chekhov makes the cherry orchard so memorable and significant in the play. Do not use the extract printed in Question 4 in answering this question. [25]
Answer this question and get it marked →Explore how Judith Wright conveys powerful emotions in Australia 1970. [25]
Answer this question and get it marked →How does Ken Liu powerfully depict the relationship between the narrator and his mother in The Paper Menagerie? [25]
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