Career Development 2201

Name:_________________
Pursuit of Happyness

1. Identify some of the challenges that Chris Gardner faced

when trying to sell his bone-density scanners.
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2. What were some of the challenges that Chris’s wife Linda had to face?
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3. List some of the risks that Chris Gardner faced in getting the job at
Dean Witter.
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4. What would result if Chris had given up on his dream of getting a job at
Dean Witter?
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5. Summarize some of the difficulties that Chris had to face while training
at Dean Witter.
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6. Did Christopher (Chris Gardner’s son) face challenges during this time?
Identify some of those challenges.
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7. List some of the alternatives that Chris and his son could have done to
make their life better.
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8. Explain how Chris felt at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
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9. Select parts of the story that were the funniest, saddest, happiest, and
most unbelievable.
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10. Select an action of one of the characters that was exactly the same as
something you would have done.
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