"High Incomes Don't Bring You Happiness

PART A: What statement best identifies the central idea of the text?

• Money makes people happy above anything else.

• Emotional well-being is solely dependent on wealth.

• Money plays a limited role in people's overall happiness.

• Money plays no role in people's overall happiness.

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PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• "would it take a $100,000 salary bump to improve your mood?" (Paragraph 1)

• "Beyond $75,000, money is important for life evaluation but does nothing for happiness" (Paragraph 4)

• "it is good to have high emotional well-being, but it is also good to think your life is going well." (Paragraph 4)

• "the median U.S. household income was $52,000 in 2008, with about a third of households making above $75,000." (Paragraph 5)

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Which statement best describes the author's likely purpose for proposing questions in paragraph 1?

• to show that money is the most important factor in happiness

• to prompt readers to consider how money affects their happiness

• to prompt readers to imagine what they would do with extra cash

• to show that experts are unsure how money affects one's happiness

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

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Based on the information in the article, which of the following would improve the happiness of the median U.S. household?

• keeping their income below $52,000

• keeping their income at exactly $52,000

• increasing their income to no higher than $75,000

• increasing their income to be greater than $75,000