WorksheetsTLL Test Ch. 28-61
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Why did he miss the moon landing?
It got late and he was sent to bed.
He was at camp and there was no television.
His dad was going to take a picture of it.
He knew there was no real moon landing.
What did his mother call him?
Randy
Randolph
R
Pausch
What habit did Randy have when he would visit his parents?
He would question his parents.
He would call them by their first name.
He took them to Disney World
He leaned back on the kitchen chair.
Randy helped one of his ex-girlfriends get out of debt.
True
False
How much time is spent on worrying according to the author?
50%
10%
33%
90%
Who was the quadriplegic in the book?
A cousin
A family friend
Randy's graduate school landlord
Stephen Hawking.
Randy states, when dealing with people, ignore what they do, and pay attention to what they say.
False
True
The first Penguin Award went to students who took a risk and failed.
True
False
Professor Randy Pausch favors the use of cliches?
True
False
Randy urged and encouraged his students to create things that peope will want to destroy so engineers can better improve on them.
True
False
One thing the author values is handwritten notes. On one occasion a young lady
wrote him a thank you note for interviewing her.
wrote a thank you note to someone who assisted her and Randy found it.
mailed a letter to ETC noting she wanted to be a part of the Disney imagineers team.
asked for his advice on writing handwritten notes.
When someone goes to bat for you, they
support your judgment and position.
support the same baseball team you support.
hold on to a favor and cash it in later.
pass on a job and look for another.
One of the reasons, Professor Randy Pausch got tenure early, was because
he earned an internship at Disney imagineers.
he worked late, including Friday nights.
chose work over his family early on.
he believed in people.
One way that Randy would show his colleagues appreciation for reviewing research papers was to
write them hand written thank you notes.
enclose a box of Thin Mints as a reward for their help.
share a Pauschism.
share a Coach Graham word of wisdom.
Randy and his sister paid $100,000 for a salt and pepper shaker they bought at Disney World.
False
True
Which universities did Randy Pausch NOT get into initially?
Brown University and Carnegie Mellon
Brown University and the University of North Carolina
University of Virginia and Carnegie Mellon
University of Virgina and University of North Carolina
What are the names of Randy's three best friends?
Scott, Steve, and Jack
Mickey, Donald, and Goofball
Jai, Steve, and Jack
Jon, Coach Graham, Steve
What did Randy's wife whisper into his ear at the lecture?
You did good.
Please don't die
I'm glad I came.
This was emotional.
Even though he celebrated Jai's birthday, Randy managed to sing Happy Birthday to her on the day of his lecture.
True
False.
Because his children were young when Randy's prognosis was weakening , he chose to celebrate something different with each one of them.
True
False
