Which of the following does not illustrate an effective way of coping with a major frustration? a. tired of the long hours and low pay of his job at burgers-r-us, robert began night classes in bookkeeping. b. cameron loved cars, but realizing he wasn't performing well as a car salesman, he persevered until he landed work as an apprentice mechanic. c. leslie loved clothes and hoped to become a designer, so she quit her job at the convenience store and moved back to her parent's home in arizona. d. natalie wasn't getting ahead in her social service job and felt she wasn't serving her latino clients well, so she became a student of spanish.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt