plumiHobson’s Choice: Edexcel GCSE English Literature questions
Every Edexcel GCSE English Literature exam question on Hobson’s Choice, 2017–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 18 questions on Hobson’s Choice, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Jim: … There’s things called settlements. Hobson: Settlements? Jim: Aye. You’ve to bait your hook to catch fish, Henry. How is Victorian life presented in Hobso
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Maggie: I’ll have my sisters there when I get wed. It’s at one o’clock at St Philip’s. Explain the significance of Maggie’s relationship with her sisters in the
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Hobson: Look here, Maggie, you’re talking straight and I’ll talk straight and all. When I’m set I’m set. You’re coming here. How is conflict important in the pl
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Stage direction: He is a lanky fellow, about thirty, not naturally stupid but stunted mentally by a brutalized childhood. Explain the significance of Willie Mos
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Hobson: I’m warning you your conduct towards your parent’s got to change. Explain the relationship between Maggie and Hobson in the play. You must refer to the
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Maggie: You can afford five hundred pounds and you’re going to pay five hundred pounds. How is money important in Hobson’s Choice? You must refer to the context
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Tubby: But I’m not a rash man, and I’m not going to be responsible to the master with his temper so nowty and all since Miss Maggie went. Explore the presentati
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Willie: I’m not ambitious that I know of. Maggie: No. But you’re going to be. I’ll see to that. How is ambition significant in the play? You must refer to the c
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Hobson: Go and get my dinner served and talk less. Go on now. I’m not in right temper to be crossed. How is control significant in Hobson’s Choice? You must ref
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Willie: I’ll take you into partnership and give you your half-share on the condition you’re sleeping partner. In what ways does Hobson’s Boot Shop change in the
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Maggie: I’m thirty and I’m marrying Willie Mossop. And now I’ll tell you my terms. In what ways are decisions significant in Hobson’s Choice? You must refer to
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Hobson: Wages? Do you think I pay wages to my own daughters? I’m not a fool. Explore the importance of women in the play. You must refer to the context of the p
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Hobson: See here, Maggie. I set the hours at this house. It’s one o’clock dinner because I say it is. Explore the significance of the Hobson family in the play
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Hobson: I’m British middle class and proud of it. In what ways is social class presented in the play? You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.
- June 2018, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Maggie: He’s not so well, Alice. The doctor says one of us must come and live here to look after him. How is responsibility important in Hobson’s Choice? You mu
- June 2018, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Vickey: Yes. But we’ve got to be careful, Alice. She mustn’t have things too much her way. Explain the significance of Alice and Vickey in the play. You must re
- June 2017, Paper 1, Q9 (40 marks): Willie: I’ll be getting back to my stool, Miss Maggie. (Moves to trap.) Maggie: (stopping him): You’ll go back when I’ve done with you. Explore the relationship
- June 2017, Paper 1, Q10 (40 marks): Maggie: I think Hobson and Mossop is best. Hobson: His name on my sign-board? Willie: The best I’ll do is this: Mossop and Hobson. In what ways are choices impo
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