SSC CPO – SSC CPO Test 4

Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. <br><br> Amartya Senwas born (in 1933) on a University campus, that of Rabindranath Tagore's Vishwa­Bharati, in the West Bengal village of Santiniketan. It was Tagore who prophetically chose the name Amartya ("immortal") for the only other Bengali who has so far emulated his Nobel Prize. Sen won it (in 1998) in economics, though, as his writings demonstrate, he could just as convincingly be described as a sociologist, a historian, a Sanskritist, a political analyst or a moral philosopher.. At the age of 11, Amartya saw a bleeding Muslim labourer, kader Mia being knifed in a communal riot. Economics, politics and morality intersected in that tragic episode, indelibly marking Amartya Sen's growing mind. <br><br> A conversation with Amartya Sen underscores the extent to which his Indianness and his cosmopolitanism coexist. He traces his convictions to sources as far flung as Condorcet and Chakravarti. 'I feel very at home in Santiniketan, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Cambridge, England, in Italy. If I were told I had to choose one of them and live there only, that I would regard as a very serious loss.' Yet he would never contemplate giving up his Indian passport, because it is what entitles him to express political opinions about his own country. He has 'never been out of India for more than six months at a stretch' and manages a visit home several times a year.

Who is the writer of the passage ?

Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. <br><br> Amartya Senwas born (in 1933) on a University campus, that of Rabindranath Tagore's Vishwa­Bharati, in the West Bengal village of Santiniketan. It was Tagore who prophetically chose the name Amartya ("immortal") for the only other Bengali who has so far emulated his Nobel Prize. Sen won it (in 1998) in economics, though, as his writings demonstrate, he could just as convincingly be described as a sociologist, a historian, a Sanskritist, a political analyst or a moral philosopher.. At the age of 11, Amartya saw a bleeding Muslim labourer, kader Mia being knifed in a communal riot. Economics, politics and morality intersected in that tragic episode, indelibly marking Amartya Sen's growing mind. <br><br> A conversation with Amartya Sen underscores the extent to which his Indianness and his cosmopolitanism coexist. He traces his convictions to sources as far flung as Condorcet and Chakravarti. 'I feel very at home in Santiniketan, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Cambridge, England, in Italy. If I were told I had to choose one of them and live there only, that I would regard as a very serious loss.' Yet he would never contemplate giving up his Indian passport, because it is what entitles him to express political opinions about his own country. He has 'never been out of India for more than six months at a stretch' and manages a visit home several times a year.

In which field did Amartya Sen get Nobel Prize for ?

Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. <br><br> Amartya Senwas born (in 1933) on a University campus, that of Rabindranath Tagore's Vishwa­Bharati, in the West Bengal village of Santiniketan. It was Tagore who prophetically chose the name Amartya ("immortal") for the only other Bengali who has so far emulated his Nobel Prize. Sen won it (in 1998) in economics, though, as his writings demonstrate, he could just as convincingly be described as a sociologist, a historian, a Sanskritist, a political analyst or a moral philosopher.. At the age of 11, Amartya saw a bleeding Muslim labourer, kader Mia being knifed in a communal riot. Economics, politics and morality intersected in that tragic episode, indelibly marking Amartya Sen's growing mind. <br><br> A conversation with Amartya Sen underscores the extent to which his Indianness and his cosmopolitanism coexist. He traces his convictions to sources as far flung as Condorcet and Chakravarti. 'I feel very at home in Santiniketan, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Cambridge, England, in Italy. If I were told I had to choose one of them and live there only, that I would regard as a very serious loss.' Yet he would never contemplate giving up his Indian passport, because it is what entitles him to express political opinions about his own country. He has 'never been out of India for more than six months at a stretch' and manages a visit home several times a year.

Which place would Amarty sen choose if he were told to live there only ?