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Reading Comprehension

Choose the best answer.

1. What was the profession of Alfred Nobel?
A. politician and economist
B. scientist and inventor
C. a diplomat

2. What qualifies individuals or groups for this prestigious
recognition?
A. significant work in promoting peace in a particular area.
B. invention of a new weapon for mass destruction
C. success in killing terrorists

3. Name a controversial Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
A. Carl von Ossietzky
B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. Joseph Stalin

4. Aside from controversial laureates, what other criticisms were

being said about the prize?
A. the Peace Prize is “left-leaning”
B. the Peace Prize favors fascists
C. the Peace Prize favors famous personalities

5. Who were some of the peace advocates who were not able to
receive this award?
A. Mahatma Gandhi and Corazon Aquino

B. Jimmy Carter and Barrack Obama
C. Yasser Arafat and Anwar Sadat

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