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  • •Passage 1: questions 1–13. Time allowed: 20 minutes.
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Passage 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on the reading passage below.

Katherine Mansfield: A Life in Short Stories

Questions 1–6

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? Choose TRUE if the statement agrees with the information, FALSE if the statement contradicts the information, NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

1Mansfield lived in Europe for most of her adult life.

2Mansfield’s family was poor when she was a child.

3At Queen’s College, Mansfield studied to become a professional musician.

4Mansfield enjoyed living in Wellington after her return in 1906.

5Virginia Woolf admitted to feeling jealous of Mansfield’s writing.

6Mansfield’s later stories contain a lot of dramatic action.

Questions 7–13

Complete the notes below. Choose ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

Katherine Mansfield

1888: born in Wellington
first stories published in an magazine
returned to England in with an allowance from her father
In a German Pension based on time at a health
after her brother died in the war, she wrote about her in New Zealand
1917: diagnosed with
travelled in Europe to find a suitable
after her death, Murry published her letters and