Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale: Edexcel A‑Level English Literature questions

Every Edexcel A-Level English Literature exam question on Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, 2016–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.

All 18 questions on Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, as a list

June 2025, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer presents the Wife as a teacher in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 257–292 and one other extract of
June 2025, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer presents the supernatural in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 605–626 and one other extract of simi
June 2024, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer presents attitudes towards marital love in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 77–114 and one other ex
June 2024, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer presents the significance of physical appearance in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 586–626 and on
June 2023, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer presents the war between the sexes in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 788-828 and one other extrac
June 2023, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer retains the reader’s interest in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 163-193 and one other extract of
June 2022, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore Chaucer’s use of satire in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 371–412 and one other extract of similar length. You must relate
June 2022, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which morality is presented in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 1219–1264 and one other extract of similar length
November 2021, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore Chaucer’s presentation of argument in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale by referring to lines 688–720 and one other extract of similar length. You mu
November 2021, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer presents ‘gentillesse’ in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale by referring to lines 1109–1138 and one other extract of simila
October 2020, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore how Chaucer presents love in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale by referring to lines 593–626 and one other extract of similar length. You must relate
October 2020, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which Chaucer presents women in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale by referring to lines 224–264 and one other extract of similar length.
June 2019, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore how Chaucer presents the Wife’s rebellion against voices of authority in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 77-114 and one othe
June 2019, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore how Chaucer presents the Wife’s treatment of her husbands in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 194-223 and one other extract o
June 2018, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore how ‘maistrie’ is presented in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 1037–1057 and one other extract of similar length. You must r
June 2018, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore how the Wife of Bath is presented as a storyteller in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 1–23 and one other extract of similar
June 2017, Paper 3, Q5 (30 marks): Explore how justice is presented in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 902–918 and one other extract of similar length. You must relate
June 2017, Paper 3, Q6 (30 marks): Explore how marriage is presented in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by referring to lines 35–58 and one other extract of similar length. You must relate

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