The Sign of Four extract question

How the 19th-century novel question works: from the extract to the whole text, and the assessment objectives.
How to plan and structure an answer, using The Sign of Four as the worked example, with a model answer and commentary.
A question set out as AQA sets it, with its wording and marks.
Paper 1 Section B: one extract question with no choice, closed book, about 50 minutes, with no marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
A model answer of about 800 words, with its extract printed, that uses the extract and the whole novel.
The level the model answer would reach and why, with a Grade 5 and a Grade 8 paragraph side by side.
How to place the extract in the novel, such as Small's capture in Chapter 11, and move from it to the rest of the story.

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