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In the following questions, you have one brief passage with 5 questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

PASSAGE

Two years later, in November 1895, he signed his final will. He left the bulk of his fortune, amounting to about £1,75,000 to a trust fund administered by Swedish and Norwegian trustees. The annual interest shall be awarded as prizes to those persons who during the previous year have rendered the greatest services to mankind. The interest shall be divided into five equal parts– now amounting to about £8,000 each– one of which shall be awarded to the person who has made the most important discovery or invention in the realm of physics, one to the person who has made the most important chemical discovery or improvement, one to the person who has made the most important physiological or medical discovery, one to the person who has produced the most outstanding work of literature, idealistic in character, and one to the person who has done the best work for the brotherhood of nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, as well as for the formation or popularization of peace congress.

Question : 11

The said prize is awarded

a) once in 5 years

b) every year

c) once in 4 years

d) once in 2 years

Answer: (b)

Question : 12

Which is the prize that is referred to in the passage?

a) Nobel Prize

b) Magsaysay Award

c) Pulitzer Prize

d) Booker Prize

Answer: (a)

Question : 13

The number of prizes in the field of science are

a) Four

b) One

c) Three

d) Five

Answer: (c)

Question : 14

Total annual prize money amounts to

a) £8,000 

b) £1,750,000

c) £350,000

d) £40,000

Answer: (a)

Question : 15

Prize is awarded for outstanding work in

a) Chemistry

b) Literature

c) Physics

d) All the above

Answer: (d)

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