Ready Player One 0000-0002

Finish the following line, "Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when..." 

• When JFK died. 
• The space shuttle blew up. 
• Two planes flew into the twin towers on 9/11. 
• James Halliday (the designer responsible for creating a massive, global, online game) died. 

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The BEST answer for what the original inciting force for "Ready Player One" is (found on page 2) is that...

• James Halliday had no heirs in which his billions would be doled out to after his death.

• James Halliday died a sixty-seven year old bachelor.

• James Halliday had no friends.

• James Halliday went completely insane.

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What is the purpose of the following symbols (*, ⍏, ⇟, §) as they are seen on page 3?

• To signal the reader to look at the bottom of the page so that vocabulary words could be clarified.

• To signal the reader to look at the bottom of the page so they could read stage directions.

• To go with the following text, “(The video) would become the most scrutinized piece of film in history, surpassing even the Zapruder film in the amount of painstaking frame by frame analysis devoted to it.”

• Symbols? What symbols? There were symbols?!

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How does the term, “escrow” contribute to the meaning of Hallidays, “Dead Man’s Party,” message found on page 4?

• The term lets the reader know that anyone who broke the condition of the terms of his video game would be sued.

• The term lets the reader know that Halliday’s fortune would be available only to the first individual who found the Easter Egg.

• The term lets the reader know that Halliday’s fortune would be available only to his heirs (family members).

• The term lets the reader know that Halliday’s vault doors would be locked for at least five years after his death.

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How does the allusion to Warren Robnett on page five (Atari’s Adventure Game) contribute to the initial conflict of “Ready Player One?”

• It contributes by letting the reader know how Easter Eggs were 1st invented and placed into video games.

• It clarifies for the reader what an Easter Egg in a video game is.

• It lets the reader know why Halliday liked playing Atari’s Adventure Game so much.

• It is used as an introduction as to why (and for what purpose) Halliday created his own Easter Eggs in the game OASIS.

What is the purpose of the verse Halliday recites on page 6 in the Dead Man’s Party?

• To announce the hunt for the Halliday Easter Egg to Begin.

• To give OASIS players’ clues as to where his inheritance can be found.

• To give clues as to where the Easter Egg that will make one lucky player the heir to Halliday’s billion dollar fortune.

• To be used as a code that will unlock secret doors that can be found in OASIS.

What pieces of information were revealed on page seven that will (more than likely) be key elements that will contribute to the rising action throughout the rest of the story?

• A link to Halliday's personal website.

• The scoreboard

• The Almanac

• All of the above

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After five long years, who finally found the Copper Key? 

• an avatar
• an eighteen-year-old kid
• the narrator
• all the above

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The narrator (Wade’s) avatar name is what type of figurative language? (p.28)

• Allusion

• Extended Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Personification

What was Wade hoping to allude to by choosing the name Parzival, after the knight of Arthurian legend who had found the Holy Grail?

• That he would be the one to find the Holy Grail of OASIS--the Easter Egg; therefore, win billions of dollars.

• That by letting his audience know what a legend he was seen as in the game OASIS.

• By providing irony that his character was a mighty legend, but that he was the opposite--nothing.

• By making his avatar human like, he is attempting to get across the point of what it means to be human.