"Confessions" and "Gaming & Empathy" Articles Quiz (3rd Period)

Coates' statement of having "(Their) assumptions were based on the idea that video games would never grow up," tells us all of the following except _____________________.

• Video games were thought to have been confined in a person's younger years.

• Playing games were solely for younger audiences.

• It was considered immature or childish to play video games.

• The virtual world entertainment will witness a decrease in a person's interest and participation.

What are MMOG's?

• —Massively Multiplayer Online Games.

• —Massively Multiplayer Omnipresent Games.

• —Massively Multiplayer Omniscient Games.

• —Massively Multiplayer Orbital Games.

Unlike with normal video games, where you interact with just a computer, MMOGs allow millions of people to play with each other in sprawling online ______________ worlds.

• Extraterrestrial

• Subterranial

• Virtual

• Imaginary

The statement, "Their clientele are mostly young men like myself— the same young men who’ve been giving studio executives headaches as we abandon the box office and TV," suggests to the reader that:

• The TV and Box Office industry have stood the test of time and are still popular among male audiences.

• The TV and Box Office industry have suffered losses in viewership and revenue due to decline in people's interest.

• Many people, i.e. men, have opted for three-dimensional and interactive platforms of entertainment.

• None of the above.

Who created "World of Warcraft," or Wow?

• Tornado Alley Studios

• Lightning Fast Productions

• Blizzard Entertainment

• Torrent Media

Who authored the Confessions?

• Jane McGonigal

• Julie Muncy

• Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates

• Morgan Harper Nichols

What is "the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another?"

• Sympathy

• Apathy

• Empathy

• Telepathy

In the sentence, "Gaming is no longer a young medium, but it’s still somewhat opaque from the outside, which makes games an easy target for crusades from those wont to crusade," the word medium most likely means:

• Channel, conveyor, platform

• A person who who converses with the departed

• The middle number in a plot line

• Size of a person's apparel

The passage which reads, "By doing this, advocates argue, games can influence and improve our behavior outside of the 'magic circle,' that digitized realm where events take on new, outsized significance," suggests to the reader that the author most likely _________________.

• Is strongly for young audiences' participation in video games.

• Is strongly against young audiences' participation in video games.

• Is conflicted in her belief whether young audiences' participation in video games is good or not.

• Is providing an unpopular, yet plausible perspective, that games can be beneficial to its users to some extent.

"Games, if anything, seem to confirm the moral activation or disengagement of the person playing, offering them a chance to live out who they are, or at least a version of them shaped by the morals offered by the game world." This passage informs the reader that: ____________________.

• There are both advantages and disadvantages to gaming based on currently available research.

• There are both advantages and disadvantages to gaming based on currently available research and therefore, readers should be judicious to note that accordingly.

• People who play video games are either morally conflicted or deficient and therefore, they should just abstain from video gaming, in general.

• The empathy camp is completely wrong; no one can possibly be the best version of themselves in the virtual world.