HSC Year 12 - Paper 2 Section 1 - Module A - Textual Conversations - Practice Questions

1. How does the comparison of texts enhance your understanding of enduring human concerns across time?

In your response, evaluate how each composer reimagines key ideas to reflect their context and purpose.

2. To what extent does the later text challenge or refine the values and assumptions of the original?

Discuss with close reference to the ways textual form, style, and context shape meaning in both texts.

3. Compare how the two texts represent the individual’s struggle with societal expectations.

In your response, explore how shifting contexts influence each text’s treatment of conformity and resistance.

4. “All acts of adaptation are acts of critical commentary.”

To what extent does your study of textual conversation support this view? In your response, examine how each text engages with the other through transformation or reinterpretation.

5. How does the comparison of two texts deepen your understanding of the ambiguity and complexity of human motivation?

Support your response with analysis of how each text reflects its composer’s context and purpose.

6. To what extent is meaning shaped by the distinctively different ways each text explores moral ambiguity?

In your response, compare the texts’ treatment of ethical uncertainty, and how this reflects evolving values.

7. “When one text speaks to another, it both echoes and disrupts.”

Discuss how your prescribed texts engage in dialogue with one another, highlighting both continuity and departure in the treatment of key ideas.

8. Compare how textual form and language are used in each text to provoke critical reflection.

In your response, consider how stylistic and structural choices shape meaning and guide audience interpretation.

9. How does the study of two texts in conversation enrich your understanding of the instability of truth and perspective?

Explore how each composer’s context informs their portrayal of reality, truth, or perception.

10. To what extent do the differences between the two texts arise from changes in context, rather than intention?

Evaluate how each text’s representation of key concerns is shaped more by its sociocultural moment than by deliberate contrast.