Steve Jobs Section 1 Quiz

In Story 1 of Jobs’s commencement speech, he speaks about dropping out of college and taking classes he was interested in, instead. What is the central idea of this part of the speech?

• In order to be successful, you must trust that your decisions will make sense someday

• You have to work hard and have a good plan if you want to be successful.

• Having fun is more important than being successful.

• Education is not necessary to be successful

1. What does the word choice in this excerpt reveal about Jobs’s attitude?

screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure. Thought about running away from the valley. I still loved what I did.  I had been rejected, but I was still in love.

• It shows that Jobs was unaffected.

•  It shows that Jobs felt rejected, yet ready to make a change.

• It shows that Jobs was furious.

• t shows that Jobs was happy.

In his speech, Jobs explains how he tried to correct his failures. What are two of those ways?

• Jobs met with other businessmen and tried apologizing for his mistakes.

•  Jobs took classes to find something in which he was interested.

•   Jobs lived his life to the fullest after a cancer diagnosis.

• Jobs hired people to help him run his company.

• Order the following events mentioned in Jobs’s speech chronologically.

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

• Jobs started the companies NeXT and Pixar.

• Jobs and his colleague at Apple had a disagreement and Jobs was fired from the company.

• Jobs and the Apple company released the Macintosh, the first computer with beautiful typography

• Jobs started the Apple company and hired someone to help him.