Exam 11: Analyzing Causes and Effects

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What holiday does author Arthur Brooks use to illustrate America's enjoyment of fear?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Researchers in England showed that workers given a very boring routine task to do were much less creative immediately afterwards than workers who were not bored.

To discover an effect, we look to the _________ to figure out what the possible results of an action might be.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -At the beginning of the essay, Ian Robertson recounts the story of Holly Thompson. What injury did Holly sustain from boredom?

Analyzing causes and effects is to break a topic or situation down into parts and look at how these parts

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Brooks includes very few modern examples in the body of his essay. Why not? Does this absence strengthen or weaken the essay? Explain your answer.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -We become sated with anything that is repeated again and again and our brains are noveltyhungry.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What does Robertson list as dangers for those who are "too prone to boredom?"

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Then attack these inordinate attachments-and be grateful for the fear that led you to them.

Attacking child poverty at its roots means changing laws and changing social values. Legislators in California are considering proposals streamlining the child-support payment process. The leader is Washington state, where unmarried fathers must sign a paternity statement if they want their names on the child's birth certificate. Washington also requires many employers to give the names and Social Security numbers of all hires to the state child-support agency for tracking purposes. And several states now require fathers to join job search programs. -Jan Larson -What causes and effects does the author cite? How do they relate to the topic sentence?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What are people over-prone to boredom likely to blame their discontent on?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What does Robertson imply is the conventional solution to students being bored in class?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We learned that any female over the age of twelve can expect to be criminally assaulted some time in her life, that women aged thirty have a fifty-fifty chance of being raped, robbed, or attacked, and that many police officials say flatly that they cannot protect citizens from crime. During the same period, the number of women considering gun ownership quadrupled to nearly two million. Manufacturers began showing light-weight weapons with small grips and purses with built-in holsters. A new magazine is called Guns and Women, and more than 8,000 copies of the video A Woman's Guide to Firearms were sold by 1988. Experts say female gun buyers are not limited to any particular age group, profession, social class, or area of the country and most are buying guns to protect themselves. Shooting instructors say women view guns with more caution than do men and may make better shots. -Linda Hasselstrom -What causes and effects does the author cite? How do they relate to the topic sentence?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What is the first "virtue" that fear can cultivate?

Why do you need to have a clear statement or topic sentence in your cause and effect paragraph?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We learned that any female over the age of twelve can expect to be criminally assaulted some time in her life, that women aged thirty have a fifty-fifty chance of being raped, robbed, or attacked, and that many police officials say flatly that they cannot protect citizens from crime. During the same period, the number of women considering gun ownership quadrupled to nearly two million. Manufacturers began showing light-weight weapons with small grips and purses with built-in holsters. A new magazine is called Guns and Women, and more than 8,000 copies of the video A Woman's Guide to Firearms were sold by 1988. Experts say female gun buyers are not limited to any particular age group, profession, social class, or area of the country and most are buying guns to protect themselves. Shooting instructors say women view guns with more caution than do men and may make better shots. -Linda Hasselstrom -How does Hasselstrom organize the details in this paragraph: chronologically or from one extreme to another?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -So there's the challenge, how precisely do you learn about the neuroanatomical connections of the prefrontal cortex or the joys of confirmatory factor analysis without having to put up with a bit of boredom?

Name one effect of having face-to-face contact in Robert Hine's paragraph about blind people.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Using the essay and your own experiences, what do you think are the most common causes of boredom?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Boredom may not be necessary where a person is driven by big ____________ and the big curiosity which they generate.