Reading Comprehension Quiz (Robert D. Putnam, “Health and Happiness”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Robert D. Putnam, “Health and Happiness”

Read “Health and Happiness” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question In the first paragraph, Putnam cites a study by Emile Durkheim suggesting that “self-destruction is not merely a personal tragedy, he found, but a sociologically predictable consequence of the degree to which one is integrated into society.” Based on this idea, people

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Question Putnam writes that the “positive contributions to health made by social integration and social support rival in strength the detrimental contributions of well-established biomedical risk factors like cigarette smoking.” The reader is left to infer that

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Question At the bottom of paragraph 6, Putnam employs italics for the last part of the final sentence. What effect does using italics have on the information?

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Question Putnam writes in paragraph 7 that researchers found “an astonishingly strong relationship between poor health and low social capital.” This means that

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Question In the case study of Roseto, Pennsylvania, Putnam cites that this close-knit Italian American community had better health, on average, than other surrounding communities during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1980s, as young people moved away and were less connected to the community, the health of the citizens

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Question Based on the reading and Figure 1, a socially-engaged Caucasian man, of average income, living in South Dakota

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Question Putnam concludes that “Americans are healthier than ever before” based on life expectancy, advances in medicine, etc. However, Americans, in “self-reports indicate that we are feeling worse.” What does Putnam blame this on?

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Question Putnam says that, according to the DDB Needham Life Style survey, “Happiness. […] is correlated with material well-being.” But more important than money, studies indicate that

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Question Putnam writes that “Perhaps happy people are more likely than unhappy people to get married, win raises at work, continue in school, attend church, join clubs, host parties, and so on.” Why does he include this information?

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