plumiThe Importance of Being Earnest: Edexcel A‑Level English Literature questions
Every Edexcel A-Level English Literature exam question on The Importance of Being Earnest, 2016–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 36 questions on The Importance of Being Earnest, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q23 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde makes use of uncertainty in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q24 (25 marks): Explore the extent to which Wilde challenges traditional values in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual facto
- June 2025, AS Paper 1, Q9 (48 marks): ‘Though the characters may speak of high moral standards, their own actions demonstrate little sense of morality.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s
- June 2025, AS Paper 1, Q10 (48 marks): ‘Wilde presents Victorian society as being overly concerned with wealth.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of the significanc
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q23 (25 marks): Explore the presentation of women’s behaviour in Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q24 (25 marks): Explore the extent to which Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a play about trivialities. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors
- June 2024, AS Paper 1, Q9 (48 marks): ‘Everyone tells stories rather than the truth in The Importance of Being Earnest.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of storie
- June 2024, AS Paper 1, Q10 (48 marks): ‘Nothing is taken seriously in this play, not even death.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of attitudes to death in The Impo
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q25 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde makes use of servants in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q26 (25 marks): Explore Wilde’s use of different varieties of language in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2023, AS Paper 1, Q9 (48 marks): ‘Wilde portrays the upper classes as idle and lazy.’ In the light of this comment, explore the dramatic presentation of attitudes to work in The Importance of B
- June 2023, AS Paper 1, Q10 (48 marks): ‘It is impossible to care for any of these characters as none of them is honest with others or with themselves.’ In the light of this comment, explore the drama
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q25 (25 marks): Explore the ways in which Wilde presents deception in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q26 (25 marks): Explore Wilde’s use of satire in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2022, AS Paper 1, Q11 (48 marks): ‘Marrying well is more important than loving well for the characters in The Importance of Being Earnest.’ In the light of this comment, explore the dramatic pre
- June 2022, AS Paper 1, Q12 (48 marks): ‘The Importance of Being Earnest is too melodramatic to be a comedy.’ In the light of this comment, explore the significance of comedy in The Importance of Bein
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q25 (25 marks): Explore Wilde’s presentation of appearance and reality in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q26 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde makes use of social convention in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- October 2020, Paper 1, Q25 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde presents gender roles in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- October 2020, Paper 1, Q26 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde makes use of theatrical props in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- October 2020, AS Paper 1, Q11 (48 marks): ‘Wilde presents a world where it is better to be ignorant than educated.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of education in Th
- October 2020, AS Paper 1, Q12 (48 marks): ‘The characters may not read, but they do write in The Importance of Being Earnest.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of the
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q25 (25 marks): Explore the ways in which Wilde presents the relationships between men and women in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q26 (25 marks): Explore Wilde’s use of setting in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2019, AS Paper 1, Q11 (48 marks): ‘The Importance of Being Earnest presents characters obsessed with superficial matters such as money and appearance – they are all surface and no substance.’ In
- June 2019, AS Paper 1, Q12 (48 marks): ‘Wilde continually mocks the upper classes in The Importance of Being Earnest.’ In the light of this comment, explore how social classes are presented in The Im
- June 2018, Paper 1, Q25 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde presents Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2018, Paper 1, Q26 (25 marks): Explore Wilde’s presentation of double lives in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2018, AS Paper 1, Q11 (48 marks): ‘Although she may appear a minor character, Miss Prism is far from unimportant in the drama as a whole. ’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic
- June 2018, AS Paper 1, Q12 (48 marks): ‘Wilde constantly challenges Victorian society’s expectations of men.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of men in The Importa
- June 2017, Paper 1, Q25 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde presents social status in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2017, Paper 1, Q26 (25 marks): Explore how Wilde treats the theme of personal identity in The Importance of Being Earnest. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
- June 2017, AS Paper 1, Q11 (48 marks): ‘Above all, Jack wants others to see him as an upright and moral character.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of Jack in The
- June 2017, AS Paper 1, Q12 (48 marks): ‘The play offers us portraits of conventional Victorian womanhood.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of women in The Importan
- June 2016, AS Paper 1, Q11 (48 marks): ‘Cecily is delightful because she is so superficial.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of Cecily in The Importance of Being E
- June 2016, AS Paper 1, Q12 (48 marks): ‘For almost all the characters, secrets and lies are an essential part of life.’ In the light of this comment, explore Wilde’s dramatic presentation of secrets
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