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Test a narrator's claim against the details - Paper 1

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Original passage, 'Interview': I did not need to impress them. Before entering I practised my greeting against the dark window and straightened the folder twice. Test the stated claim against observable details. An inference can challenge the claim without identifying an unnamed person or inventing a hidden event.

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  1. Identify two details that complicate the opening claim in 'Interview'.
  2. Write a cautious interpretation of the narrator in 'Interview', linked to those details.
  3. What cannot be established about 'Interview' from this short passage alone?

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