plumiTop Girls: AQA A‑Level English Literature A questions
Every AQA A-Level English Literature A exam question on Top Girls, 2020–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 12 questions on Top Girls, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2B, Q09 (25 marks): Examine the significance of the relationship between Marlene, Joyce and Angie.
- June 2025, Paper 2B, Q10 (25 marks): Examine the significance of marriage in Top Girls.
- June 2024, Paper 2B, Q09 (25 marks): ‘In Top Girls, Churchill presents a world in which there is no hope for the powerless.’ Examine this view.
- June 2024, Paper 2B, Q10 (25 marks): Examine the significance of resistance in Top Girls.
- June 2023, Paper 2B, Q09 (25 marks): According to Marlene, to be working class in the 1980s means to be ‘lazy and stupid’. Examine Churchill’s presentation of ideas about social class in the light
- June 2023, Paper 2B, Q10 (25 marks): Examine the significance of motherhood in the play.
- June 2022, Paper 2B, Q09 (25 marks): Examine the significance of Joyce in the play.
- June 2022, Paper 2B, Q10 (25 marks): ‘Top Girls is nothing more than an attack upon the political ideas of Margaret Thatcher.’ Examine this view.
- November 2021, Paper 2B, Q09 (25 marks): Examine the significance of the office-based scenes in Top Girls.
- November 2021, Paper 2B, Q10 (25 marks): ‘The play is too incoherent and confusing to present its ideas effectively.’ Examine this view of Top Girls.
- November 2020, Paper 2B, Q09 (25 marks): Examine the view that, in Top Girls, Churchill presents women as haunted by the past.
- November 2020, Paper 2B, Q10 (25 marks): Examine the significance of the role of Angie in Top Girls.
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