2026 AQA AS ENGLISH LITERATURE B 7716/2B Paper 2B Merged Question Paper + Mark Scheme

2026 AQA AS ENGLISH LITERATURE B 7716/2B Paper 2B Merged Question Paper + Mark Scheme

Section A
Answer one question from this section.
Either
0 1 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer
Explore the significance of the ending of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale to the comedy of the
poem.
In your answer you need to analyse closely Chaucer’s authorial methods and include
comments on the extract below.
[25 marks]
From The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
‘Thou shalt namoore, thurgh thy flaterye,
Do me to singe and winken with min eye;
For he that winketh whan he sholde see,
Al wilfully, God lat him nevere thee!’
‘Nay,’ quod the fox, ‘but God yeve him
meschaunce
That is so undiscreet of governaunce
That jangleth whan he sholde holde his pees!’
Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees,
And necligent, and truste on flaterye!
But ye that holden this tale a folye,
As of a fox, or of a cok and hen,
Taketh the moralitee, goode men.
For Seint Paul seyth that al that writen is,
To oure doctrine it is ywrite, iwys.
Taketh the fruit, and lat the chaf be stille.
Now, goode God, if that it be thy wille
(As seyth my lord), so make us alle goode men,
And bringe us to thy heighe blisse! Amen.