Jobs Section 1 Review

The claim of story 2 is we often have to feel the loss of something before we can get back to understanding what we truly love. Which piece of evidence BEST supports this claim?

• "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick."

• "I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly."

• "Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well."

• "I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over."

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According to Jobs's speech, what is one way that he tried to correct his failures?

• Jobs dropped out of college and began taking classes that interested him.

• Jobs had nowhere to live and very little money after dropping out of college.

• Jobs started Apple in his parents' garage at 20 years old and hired Woz to help him.

• Jobs was diagnosed with cancer and was told that he only had a few months to live.

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Which of the following BEST explains the meaning of this quote?

"It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it."

• The cancer treatment Jobs had to endure was difficult physically and emotionally.

• Sometimes you need to be able to swallow difficult information or experiences.

• The experience was extremely difficult, but in hindsight, it was very valuable.

• You have to suffer in order to grow.

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Which of the following BEST explains the meaning of the following quotation from paragraph 8?

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

• Don't concern yourself by looking back on the past; focus on your drive for the future.

• While you cannot predict the future, looking back you can often see how you got to where you are.

• It's impossible to know how to get where you want to go, but as long as you're working hard, you'll get there.

• It is okay to not have an expressed purpose in life; you'll find success once you find what you love.

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The claim of story 1 is you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. Which TWO pieces of evidence best supports this claim?

• "My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption."

• "I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

• "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

• "So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made."

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Read paragraph 12 from story 2 below. What is the main idea of paragraph 12?

"I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over."

• Jobs considered leaving his career behind after being fired.

• Despite becoming a public failure, Jobs started over because it was his passion.

• Jobs apologized for messing up.

• Jobs let other businessman and women down when he was fired.

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Which of the following statements conveys the central idea for the overall text?

• In order to be successful in life, it is important to do what you love and to have the courage to trust in yourself to know that everything will work out in the future.

• In order to be successful in life, you must experience loss.

• It is important to ask yourself each morning if you are doing what you love because you never know when your last day on Earth will be.

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Which detail BEST supports the speech's central idea?

• Jobs went to college for a few months before deciding that it wasn't for him.

• Jobs was honored to speak at Stanford because it is one of the finest universities in the world.

• Jobs continued to practice what he loved after being fired from his company.

• Jobs particularly enjoyed a class that he would not have taken as a traditional student.

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Order the following events mentioned in Jobs's speech chronologically, from earliest to latest.

1. Jobs started 2 new companies and returned to Apple.

2. Jobs dropped in on a calligraphy class after dropping out of college.

3. Jobs was diagnosed with cancer but was cured after having surgery.

4. After hiring someone to help him run his successful business, Jobs was fired from the company he started.

5. Jobs used the knowledge of calligraphy to add fonts to the Mac.

• 2, 5, 1, 3, 4

• 2, 5, 4, 1, 3

• 3, 1, 4, 2, 5

• 4, 1, 2, 5, 3

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