Steve Jobs Commencement Speech

Which detail would be MOST important to include in a summary of the speech?

• Jobs met his wife after he was fired from Apple.

• Reed College was almost as expensive as Stanford University.

• Jobs started Apple with Steve Wozniak in his parents' garage.

• The calligraphy instruction at Reed College was the best in the country

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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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What is MOST likely the reason why Jobs spoke about his decision to drop out of college?

• to display how successful people can be if they live without fear

• to show students that a college education is not very important

• to highlight the unusual background Jobs comes from

• to demonstrate that passion and hard work are most important to success

Steve Jobs' said the following statement in his speech:

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5 cent 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.

What does the work romantic most likely mean?

• Loving

• Fun

• Idealized view of reality

• Bad

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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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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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"Stay hungry, stay foolish" most likely means...

Select the BEST answer

• A. fools never prosper

• B. always push yourself

• C. step out of your comfort zone

• A and C

• B and C

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Which message/theme from "This is Water" could be BEST applied to Steve Jobs' speech?

• It is hard to go to the supermarket.

• We have a choice of how to think about life's circumstances.

• There is no such thing as atheism.

• I am not the wise old fish.

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