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Unseen fiction practice GCSE questions

Cover the answers and try these Unseen fiction practice checks first. The full quiz in the app includes hints.

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Write your answer, then check. If you miss one, open the Unseen fiction practice lesson before you retry.

Practice questions

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Question 1 [1 mark]

In “The last bus”, “like a tired animal” is

Question 2 [1 mark]

Rain that “needled” the windows suggests

Question 3 [1 mark]

A structural observation about the bus extract is that

Question 4 [1 mark]

The unopened letter in the kitchen extract is mainly

Common mistakes

Answers and working

Q1. a simile
Q2. sharp, attacking rain (personifying/violent verb)
Q3. focus narrows from bus to Maya to the man
Q4. withheld information creating tension

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