The Last Lecture Chapter 7

Match the following:

• Personal narrative of one's memory.

• lecturer

• a professor or someone to teaches

• memoire

• incurable disease

• hypothetically

• positive outcome

• karma

• conditionally; opposite of actually

• terminal disease

Match the following

• go after

• humiliated

• many

• livid

• confidence

• pursue

• embarrassed

• self-esteem

• very angry

• myriad

Match the following

• harmful

• coddle

• over protect

• detrimental

• details

• reassure

• patience and long-suffering

• intricacies

• comfort and encourage

• perseverance

Pausch probably chose the title "I Never Made It to the NFL"

• to explain his regrets for not making the team

• to emphasize the lessons he learned from football even though he never became a professional player

• to compare his job as a lecturer to an NFL player

• to infer that he loves playing football recreationally and not professionally.

Pausch would probably tell a failing student to _____________.

• work harder and don't give up your goal.

• change to an easier class.

• give up.

• not be discouraged because you are very intelligent.

Why does Pausch think that self esteem cannot be given?

• Because kids either have it or not

• Because kids have to discover as they grow up.

• Because kids develop self-esteem by working hard to do hard things until they become easy for them.

• Because Pausch believe that it is not good for kids to have too much confidence in their abilities.