AO3-1 Compare ideas and perspectives across two or more texts Quiz: AQA English Language, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. What does AO3 ask students to compare across texts?

   • The number of quotations each writer uses in total
   • The publication dates of the texts but nothing else at all
   • The page numbers and font size of the texts
   • Writers' ideas and perspectives

2. Text A presents a town as lively. Text B presents the same town as dying. What is the comparison?

   • The texts are written in the same tense and so are identical
   • The texts hold opposite views of the town's condition
   • The texts both describe a city, not a town at all
   • The texts agree that the town is the same as any other

3. Which is the best way to begin comparing two texts?

   • List the number of paragraphs in each text for comparison
   • State a shared focus, then the key difference in perspective
   • Quote the whole of the first text and stop before the second
   • Describe the layout of each text on the page in detail

4. Which pair of perspectives is a genuine comparison?

   • One writer is from 1900 and the other is from a different century
   • One writer writes in ink and the other writes in pencil on paper
   • One writer uses a question and the other uses a full stop in the text
   • One writer celebrates change, while the other mourns the loss it brings

5. What is a 'shared perspective' across texts?

   • A view that two or more writers hold in common on an issue
   • A quotation that both writers use word for word in their texts
   • A layout feature repeated in the margin of every text
   • A perspective that is shared by readers but not by writers

6. Two texts discuss the sea. One sees it as a place of freedom; the other sees it as a place of danger. What do they show?

   • A purely factual account of the sea with no viewpoint at all
   • The same perspective expressed in two different forms
   • A comparison of two unrelated subjects with no shared focus
   • Different perspectives on the same subject

7. Which comparison is most developed?

   • One writer is older and one is younger, so their views on the issue are different
   • Both writers view the issue in a similar way, and both use a long paragraph to explain it
   • Both writers view the issue with concern, but one blames governments and the other blames individuals
   • One writer uses commas to link clauses and the other uses dashes to separate them

8. A student writes that Text A is optimistic and Text B is doubtful about technology. What is this?

   • An accurate comparison of two perspectives
   • A spelling correction that should be made to the first sentence
   • A quotation that has been copied word for word from the source
   • A summary of a single text with no reference to the second

9. Why is it important to compare writers' ideas rather than describe them separately?

   • It shows how the texts relate and differ, which AO3 requires
   • It is faster to write and so students have more time to finish
   • It means the answer needs no evidence from either text at all
   • It guarantees that the examiner will award full marks for accuracy

10. Which is a 'contrast' between two writers' ideas?

    • One sees hope in the future, while the other sees only decline
    • Both writers agree that hope is important for people in general
    • One writer is male and the other is female, which is their only difference
    • Both writers describe a future that is entirely identical in detail

11. Two texts about a flood differ: one blames the council, the other blames the weather. What is the comparison?

    • They describe two different floods that happened at different times
    • They offer different explanations for the same event
    • They do not refer to the flood at all and discuss other topics
    • They agree entirely about who is to blame for the flood

12. What is the best way to show that two writers share a perspective?

    • Count the words in each text and state the difference
    • Quote one line from each that expresses the same concern
    • Describe the paper and ink used for each text in detail
    • Write the two texts' titles side by side without any comment

13. A student states that both writers see the past as a lesson. What must follow?

    • A new opinion that has no connection to either text
    • A list of all the dates mentioned in the passage
    • Evidence from each text that supports the point
    • A question to the examiner asking whether the point is correct

14. Which is a sign of a sophisticated comparison?

    • It notes both similarity and difference, and explains why the writers differ
    • It states one writer is good and the other is bad, with no reasons or examples
    • It repeats the same point in each paragraph with no development or new evidence
    • It names the two writers and states that they both write in English about the topic

15. Which example shows a writer's perspective on childhood?

    • A text that gives the date of a childhood vaccination programme
    • A text that describes a child's shoe size and the cost of its laces
    • A text that describes childhood as a time of wonder, free from worry
    • A text that lists the number of children in a particular school

16. Which statement compares two writers' attitudes?

    • One writer uses long words and the other uses short words in the text
    • One writer is patient with the subject, but the other is impatient and frustrated
    • One writer wrote the piece on a Monday and the other wrote on a Tuesday afternoon
    • One writer is English and the other is Scottish, so they naturally disagree about it

17. What does 'perspective' mean in AO3?

    • The layout of a text as it appears on a printed page
    • The particular viewpoint from which a writer considers an issue
    • The number of sources a writer consulted before writing the piece
    • The distance from which a writer observes a physical landscape

18. Which pair of texts best allows a comparison of perspectives on education?

    • A text praising a strict school and a text praising a relaxed one
    • Two texts written in two different fonts on two different papers
    • Two texts about two different kinds of weather in two cities
    • Two texts describing two bridges built in two different centuries

19. Which is an accurate statement about two texts that share a theme?

    • They cannot be compared because they have different titles
    • They must always agree on every point because they share a theme
    • They are identical in meaning if they share the same single theme
    • They can present the theme from different perspectives and purposes

20. Which of these shows two writers holding different views about money?

    • One writer uses a list and the other uses a table of figures in the text
    • One sees saving as security; the other sees spending as joy
    • One writer prints in a larger font and the other uses a smaller font
    • One writer writes in the first person and the other in the second

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