Q: Happiness is contagious , as researchers reported on Thursday.

People with the most social connections -- spouses, friends, neighbors and relatives -- were also the happiest, the data showed. "Each additional happy person makes you happier," Christakis said.

"Imagine that I am connected to you and you are connected to others and others are connected to still others. It is this fabric of humanity, like an American patch quilt."

Each person sits on a different colored patch. "Imagine that these patches are happy and unhappy patches. Your happiness depends on what is going on in the patch around you," Christakis said.

"It is not just happy people connecting with happy people, which they do. Above and beyond, there is this contagious process going on."

And happiness is more contagious than unhappiness, they discovered.

"If a social contact is happy, it increases the likelihood that you are happy by 15 percent, " Fowler said. "A friend of a friend, or the friend of a spouse or a sibling , if they are happy, increases your chances by 10 percent," he added.

A happy third degree friend -- the friend of a friend of a friend -- increases a person's chances of being happy by 6 percent.

"But every extra unhappy friend increases the likelihood that you'll be unhappy by 7 percent," Fowler said.

The finding is interesting and it is useful, too, Fowler said.

"Among other benefits, happiness has been shown to have an important effect on reduced mortality , pain reduction, and improved cardiac function. So better understanding of how happiness spreads can help us learn how to develop a healthier society," he said.

The study also fits in with other data suggested in 1984 that having $ 5,000 extra increased a person's chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent.

"A happy friend is worth about $ 20,000," Christakis said.

1. $ 20,000
2. Christakis
3. Yes
4. Christakis
5. on Thursday
6. People with the most social connections
7. Yes
8. increases the likelihood that you'll be unhappy by 7 percent
9. increases a person's chances of being happy by 6 percent.
10. an American patch quilt
11. Yes
12. No
13. "If a social contact is happy, it increases the likelihood that you are happy by 15 percent.
14. It is interesting and it is useful, too
15. reduced mortality , pain reduction, and improved cardiac function.
16. that having $ 5,000 extra increased a person's chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent.
17. what is going on in the patch around you
18. most likely

Numbered questions:
1. what is the worth of a happy person?
2. who said this?
3. can happiness spread?
4. according to?
5. when was it reported contagious?
6. what kind of people are happiest?
7. is it more contagious then unhappiness?
8. what does an unhappy friend do to you?
9. how much happiness does a third degree happy person bring?
10. what does he compare humanity fabric to?
11. does everyone sit on one patch?
12. do they sit on the same color patch?
13. what does Fowler say?
14. what does he say about the finding?
15. what are the benefits mentioned?
16. what does data suggest?
17. what does happiness depend on?
18. would you be happy if a social contact is happy?

Q: CHAPTER XIII

WOE, WOE TO JERUSALEM

Two more years went by, two dreadful, bloody years. In Jerusalem the factions tore each other. In Galilee let the Jewish leader Josephus, under whom Caleb was fighting, do what he would, Vespasian and his generals stormed city after city, massacring their inhabitants by thousands and tens of thousands. In the coast towns and elsewhere Syrians and Jews made war. The Jews assaulted Gadara and Gaulonitis, Sebaste and Ascalon, Anthedon and Gaza, putting many to the sword. Then came their own turn, for the Syrians and Greeks rose upon them and slaughtered them without mercy. As yet, however, there had been no blood shed in Tyre, though all knew that it must come. The Essenes, who had been driven from their home by the Dead Sea and taken refuge in Jerusalem, sent messengers to Miriam warning her to flee from Tyre, where a massacre was being planned; warning her also not to come to Jerusalem, which city they believed to be doomed, but to escape, if possible over sea. Nor was this all, for her own people, the Christians, besought her to fly for her life's sake with them to the city of Pella, where they were gathering from Jerusalem and all Juda. To both Miriam answered that what her grandsire did, that she must do. If he fled, she would fly; if he stayed at Tyre, she would stay; if he went to Jerusalem, she would go; for he had been good to her and she had sworn that while he lived she would not desert him. So the Essene messengers went back to Jerusalem, and the Christian elders prayed with her, and having blessed her and consigned her to the care of the Most High and His Son, their Lord, departed to Pella, where, as it was fated, through all those dreadful times not a hair of their heads was touched.

1. The Essenes
2. Jerusalem
3. Miriam
4. Syrians and Jews
5. had been no blood shed in Tyre
6. to flee from Tyre
7. answered that what her grandsire did, that she must do
8. Jerusalem
9. Christian elders
10. Most High and His Son,
11. Pella
12. Jews
13. Josephus
14. Caleb
15. city after city

Numbered questions:
1. Who had been driven from their home bye the Dead Sea?
2. Where did they take refuge?
3. Who did they send messengers to?
4. Who made war in the coast towns and other places?
5. Was there blood shed in Tyre?
6. What did the messengers warn Miriam to do?
7. What did Miriam answer?
8. So where did the Essene messengers go back to?
9. And which elders prayed with her?
10. To who did they consign her care?
11. And then where did they depart to?
12. Who assaulted Gadara and Gaulonitis?
13. Who was the Jewish leader in Galilee?
14. Which person was fighting under him?
15. Where was a massacre planned?

Q: Charles II (29 May 1630 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death.

Charles II's father, Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War. Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a "de facto" republic, led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649.

1. King of England, Scotland and Ireland
2. Scotland
3. Charles I
4. executed
5. Whitehall
6. January 30 1649
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Battle of Worcester
10. Oliver Cromwell
11. September 3 1651
12. Charles fled to mainland Europe
13. Yes
14. On 29 May 1660
15. London

Numbered questions:
1. What position did Charles II hold?
2. What country did he rule over first?
3. Who was his dad?
4. What happened to him?
5. Where?
6. When?
7. Was Charles II ever in a war?
8. Did he lose any battles?
9. Which one?
10. Who beat him?
11. When?
12. What happened after he lost?
13. Did he ever go to France?
14. When did he return to Britain?
15. What city did he return to?