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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.
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?!
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.
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
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.
Based on how it is used in the text, “People rarely used real names online. Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS. Inside the simulation, no one knew who you really were, unless you wanted them to.” (Cline p.28), what do you think the word “Anonymity” means?
Being Fuzzy
Being unclear
Being anonymous
Being hidden.
What was the main benefit for Wade when he decided to enroll into an online OASIS school system?
He got to choose what he wanted to look like, not actually what he did look like in “real” life, which made socializing easier.
They are separated by boys and girls schools, so he didn’t have to worry about “breaking into a cold sweat” when he talked to girls.
OASIS was free.
Wade was guaranteed to get a good job and/or go to a better college after he graduates.
Who (or What) was the main antagonist in Ready Player One? (p.33)
Sixers
Innovative Online Industries (IOI)
Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS)
The Oology Division
What made IOI so antagonistic?
They hired their own employees to search for Halliday’s eggs so that they could take over the game.
If they found the egg, they would start charging a monthly fee for players to use the game.
They would close the game and only allow rich people to use it.
All of the above.
Finish the following analogy: Wade’s Player One Generation had never known a world without the OASIS as Generation Z (those born after 1995) have never known a world without...
"Ladyhawke" is Wade's guilty pleasure. What is Aeche's?
Ewoks
Hobbits
Centaurs
"Sorceress"
How does Wade level up his character?
Answering questions correctly in class
Doing in-game coding projects
Competing in gunter competitions
Hitching rides to low-level combat areas
What's dangerous about teleporting in the OASIS?
Your ending destination is randomized
Different areas have different combat rules
You have to completely disarm to teleport
The teleporting stations are guarded by high-level enemies
Halliday was a brilliant coder. What did Ogden Morrow bring to the company?
He caught all of Halliday's coding mistakes
He handled the money for the company
He supplied all of the storyline
He represented the company at press conferences
Why does Wade say he decided to study Latin in his foreign language class?
He's always wanted to speak a dead language
He wants to move to Latin America
Latin is good preparation for medical school
James Halliday studied Latin
Where does Wade believe the copper key is hidden?
The Tomb of Horrors
The Temple of Doom
Ogden Morrow has it
Anorak's secret chambers
How does Wade get access to the area where he believes the copper key is hidden?
He steals a teleportation voucher from a classmate
He collects a free teleportation voucher from his school
He hijacks an in-game car
He asks his parents for a teleportation voucher.
What marks the location where Wade thinks the copper key is?
12 stones arranged in the shape of a skull
an impossibly tall stone wall with only one entrance
a sea of blood
a series of islands in the shape of a snake
What happened when Art3mis and Wade crossed blades in the Tomb of Horrors?
They realized it was a no PvP (player vs. player) zone
Their blades fused into one, more powerful weapon
Acererok interrupted their fight with a second clue
They were both instantly teleported back to the school
What stopped Wade from leaving the Tomb of Horrors after his conversation with Art3mis?
She cast a barrier spell, blocking the exit
Acererak reappeared and attacked them both
The Tomb began to collapse at the stroke of midnight
He teamed up with Art3mis to help her defeat Acererak
In chapter 10, how does Wade manage to open the First Gate?
By beating Dungeons of Daggorath
By finding Halliday's parents in Middletown
By successfully naming Halliday's favorite bands
By defeating Art3mis in a fight to the death
What happens when Wade completes the challenge to unlock the First Gate?
An iron gate appears and opens into a field of stars
Halliday shows him a vision from the past
A trapdoor opens and he's teleported into the middle of the ocean
The house explodes and he's shot into the clouds
What other added information does the reader learn about Wade that BEST adds to the inciting force of Ready Player One? (p.50 & 51)
Wade’s Avatar is only a level 3 compared to other gunners who were at level 10 or 13.
He was stuck in a “safe zone.”
He had to stop hitching rides with Aech and others because he was in danger of failing school.
He had no money or credits in order to be able to leave Ludus, the “safe zone” and therefore couldn’t go into more dangerous zones where the Halliday Egg more than likely would be.
Finish the analogy: James Donovan Halliday is to OASIS as ___________ is to _________. (p.53)
One of the main attractions of OASIS is that it is an open-source game, “Halliday and Morrow referred to the OASIS as an ‘open-source reality,’ a universe that anyone could access via the Internet.” (Cline p.57) What would be the BEST meaning for the word “open-source?”
anyone can use and modify
anyone can use, but only the company can update.
only subscribers can use and modify.
only subscribers can use and the company can update.
How did OASIS make it’s billions? (choose all that apply) (p.59)
By charging its customers twenty five dollars to download the game.
By selling virtual real estate (surreal estate).
By selling virtual objects to its players.
Through Advertising.
How did Wade's mother die?
Drug overdose
Drive-by shooting
Car crash
Crushed in a stack collapse
How does Wade support himself?
His aunt pays for his food.
He works as an OASIS technician.
He pawns old computers.
He steals food vouchers.
Where does Wade usually log in to the OASIS?
His aunt's laundry room
Mrs. Gilmore's trailer
An abandoned van
His school's library
What is the goal of IOI's Oology department?
Killing the Sixers in the OASIS
Finding Halliday's Easter Egg
Selling high-end avatar skins
Recruiting students
How does Ogden Morrow’s character BEST contribute to plot of Ready Player One?
Ogden Morrow’s character contributes to the plot of the story because it probably foreshadows him as another minor, future antagonist.
Ogden Morrow’s character contributes to the plot of the story because it gives the reader background information on his importance and role in Halliday’s life, which creates and adds tension and suspense to the story.
Ogden Morrow’s character contributes to the plot of the story because it gives the reader more background information on his role in OAISIS.
Ogden Morrow’s character contributes to the plot of the story because he knows more than he is letting on as to the clues Halliday left behind.
What figurative language is being revealed when Wade says on pages 125 & 126 of Ready Player One, “I found myself wondering how Aech and I would remain friends throughout everything that lay ahead...From here on out we would be in direct competition with each other.”
Allusion
Foreshadow
Metaphor
Simile
Why would Wade return to school the following day after he had just found the Cooper Key? Choose all that apply.
Since Aech’s name also showed up on the scoreboard, other gunters would connect the the dots that they were friends and went to the same school.
By not going to school, it would confirm the suspicion of Aech and Wade being friends.
He would receive threats on his life, if he didn’t show up to school.
Diato and Shoto would end up blackmailing him.
What was the main benefit for Wade once he found the Copper Key?
Wade got 2 million emails.
Wade got endorsement offers, which allowed him to earn enough money to finally get out of the Stacks.
It gave him instant celebrity status.
There was no benefit.
On page 133 Wade said, “I was ready to sit down with the devil.” What does that allude to as it is being used in Chapter 0013 of Ready Player One?
It meant that he was going to Nolan Sorrento, Head of Operations of Innovative Online Industries.
It meant that he was going to to have a meeting with Ogden Morrow, CEO of Halcydonia Interactive.
It means that he is being blackmailed.
It means that a demon-like character had found him in OASIS and he was about to battle with it.
What was the name of the game created by Halliday which won him fame at a young age?
Dragon Slayer
Dungeon's & Dragons
Joust
Anorak's Quest
What was the name of Halliday's business Partner?
Ogden Morrow
Greg Anderson
Morrow Wadesworth
Humphrey Hightower
What was the name of Halliday's game company?
Gandalf Games
Gifted Games
Gregarious Games
Galaxy Games
What was the type of computer used by Halliday to create his first video game?
TRS-80 Color Computer
Macintosh
Gateway
Commodore 64
What is OASIS an acronym of ?
Open Air Sensory Information System
Ontologically Antrhopocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation
Optimal Auxiliary Simplification of Immersive Simulations
Only Absent Seniors are Indefinitely Skipping
What was the name of Wade's Favorite Class?
Biology
Advanced Oasis
Historical Halliday
Programming
What was the "onetime" fee to join the online Oasis utopia?
$19.99
$199.99
$3.50
¢25
What was land called inside of the OASIS?
Internet Acreage
Oasis Outflow
Cyber Continents
Surreal Estate
Which one of the following can you not "buy" inside of the OASIS?
Magic Swords and Machine Guns
Homes and Furniture
Flying Cars and Tie Fighters
Hamburgers and Fries
Which two pieces of "equipment" are necessary to enter the OASIS?
Armored Visors and Brain Cape
Oasis Visor and Haptic Gloves
Heated Gloves and 3D Glasses
Virtual-Reality Glasses and Robotic Sensory-Gloves
What form does "Aech's" chatroom take?
Bathroom
Basement
Classroom
Arcade
What is the name of the 1985 movie being debated over by the two best friends?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ladyhawke
Sixteen Candles
Top Gun
What is the name of the "friend" who enters Aech's chatroom and stirs up trouble?
13east
K1ll3R
Cool-1
I-r0k
Aech and Parzival are both...
Poseurs
Clan Members
Sixers
Gunters
What's the name of the videogame discussed by the boys, which Parzival and Aech are all too familiar with already?
Swordquest
Tomb Raider
Pitfall
Final Fantasy
Name the game which Aech won 3 times.
Galaga: Battle Hardened
Tron: Deadly Discs
Star Wars: Battlefront
Aesteroids
Identify the "Stack".
Identify the "Stack".
What do Aech and Perzival plan to do after school?
Search for the Copper Key with the rest of the Gunters
ArcadeHour
SmashBrothers
TVtime
What is Parzival and Aech's friendship based upon?
"total hatred of the Sixers"
"total, all-consuming obsession with Halliday and his Easter Egg"
"self-directed independence"
"Search for Oasis Credits"
In which of Parzival's classes, is most of this chapter is set?
Latin
World History
Science
Math
What is the historical event being taught in Perzival's class?
Kennedy Assasination
World War II
Discovery of King Tut's Tomb
History of the Oasis
What is the name of the planet where Wade goes to school?
Middletown
Archaide
Frobozz
Ludas
How does Wade describe the makeup of the Oasis?
like a "Pie Chart"
like a "Golf Course, with many more holes"
like a "Rubik's Cube"
like a "Train with it's Cars and Caboose"
What does Wade need to go to another planet?
Oasis Credits
American Dollars
BitCoin
XP's (experience points)
How many sectors is the Oasis divided up into?
3
452
27
1,435,987
There are planets in the Oasis which allow magic?
True
False
What did Wade's teacher "look" like?
Short woman, young and attractive, with long blonde hair
Tall thin woman with thick-dark spectacles
Portly, college professor type, with wire-rimmed glasses
Tall professional looking man, with a suit, and a no-nonsense attitude
What did Wade do during lunch?
Visit Aech in the basement
Login to a chatroom and read blog posts from Aertimus
Watch Battlestar Galactica
Sat in a field near the school
What "level" was Wade's Avatar?
3rd
10th
12th
7th
How does the following description of Middlewon, “Halliday had coded the planet so that no matter where you visited or where you were on the surface, it was always a perfect late-autumn afternoon, circa 1986,” (Cline p.101) add to the Situational Irony of Halliday’s Character?
Because there was no hint in the town that his father was an abusive alcoholic.
Because there was no hint that his mother was bi-polar.
Because even though Halliday, who always claimed to have had a miserable childhood, he was still so nostalgic for it.
Because it had an absence of adventure
If Gunters had brought copies of other video games from other planets, and tried to play them on Halliday’s Atari, in order to open the first gate, why didn’t they work?
Because Halliday had created 256 copies of his hometown, so the gunters (and other players) didn’t know which game system to play Adventure on.
Because Art3mis had found the copper key and unlocked the gate in Dungeons of Daggorath herself.
Because no one but Wade had the key, so they couldn't fully solve Dungeons of Daggorath, and therefore unlock the gate. .
Because the gate wasn’t ever in the game Dungeons of Daggorath, it was in Adventure.
What part did the allusion to the 1980’s Film WarGames play in Prazivel’s (Wade’s) quest to “clear the gate?” (p.109)
In order to “clear the gate” Prazivel had to be in the movie.
In order to clear the gate he had to recite dialogue from the movie, as well as perform all the actions that Broderick’s character performed in the film, in the correct way and at the correct moment.
If he was unable to perform all the tasks required of him, he would be expelled from the gate, or be killed; therefore, he would not be able to “clear the gate.”
All of the above.
What type of figurative language would Wade’s dream allude to end of chapter 0011 on page 115? “I knew I was dreaming, and so I expected to wake up before they reached me. But I didn’t. The dream continued as the egg was ripped from my grasp, and I felt myself being torn to shreds.”
Flashback
Foreshadow
Hyperbole
Personification
How has Wade’s scrupulous study of The Almanac paid off as he searches for the Copper Key?
In the course of his research he discovered an old Dungeons & Dragons supplement called, Tomb of Horrors, which allowed Parzival (Wade) to go through the Tomb unharmed.
In the course of his research he discovered how to obtain the A +1 Flaming Sword, the A Gem of Seeing, the A +1 Ring of Protection, and a full suite of =3 Full Plate Armor.
His research prepared him to know exactly what game and who he would be facing once he made it to Pillared Throne Room (Acererak).
The many hours of playing Joust with his best friend (Aech) prepared him to beat Acereak and win the Copper Key.
How does Prazival and Art3mis meeting in the Pillared Throne Room (the Tomb) help move the story, Ready Player One, along?
by providing the reader with more details as to where the story takes place, which give adds to the Irony of the story by giving the reader clues as to what will happen.
by providing the reader with more details as to Wade’s character development, which gives the reader clues as to his internal conflict about having beat Acereak while his love interest has not.
by contributing to the conflict of the story, which moves the story forward by adding more tension.
by revealing foreshadowing clues as to how the climax will turn out.
How does Prazivel’s internal conflict (of wanting to get to Middletown and locate the first gate, but also wanting to stay with Art3mis) add to Wade's character development?
It adds to Wades’ character development because it reveals his painfully shy personality which is developed even more when he calls Art3mis dorky.
because the reason why he tells her his name is Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos is because his background history with his aunt has taught him that he can not trust anyone.
It adds to Wades character development because it reinforces his insecurities of what he looks like in “real life,” which is why he continues to hide his real identity from Art3mis.
It adds to Wades character development because it reveals that his internal struggle isn’t just about finding the first gate but what could potentially pull his attention away from finding it--his online crush of several years.
How do Sorrento and Wade’s point of view about IOI searching for the Easter Egg differ? (choose all that apply)
Sorrento and Wade’s point of view do not differ. They both believe that IOI would make OASIS new and improved.
Sorrento believes that the OASIS really won’t change that much.
Wade believes that if IOI takes over the OASIS that they will turn it into a fascist corporate theme park.
Sorrento and Wade’s point of view are so different that Wade won’t even agree to a meeting Sorrento.
What is the main conflict found in chapter 0014? Choose the best answer.
Sorrento tries to get Wade to work for IOI.
IOI has discovered Wade’s real identity.
After Wade turns down IOI’s two business offers, they threaten to blow up where he lives.
Wade’s internal conflict of wanting to keep his family safe gets the best of him so he decides to cave in and work for IOI.
What lines from chapter 0015 could be considered foreshadow? Choose all that apply.
“I am freaking out. I am scared.” (p.149)
“They really seemed to be hitting off, and it was making me crazy jealous. I didn’t want Art3mis to like Aech, or vice versa. I wanted her all to myself.” (p.151)
“There are no laws in OASIS, little brother. The Sixers can do whatever they please. They won’t stop until someone stops them.” (p.151)
“Could someone else be in here An invisible avatar, eavesdropping on us? This is an encrypted private chat room. No one can enter without my permission. You know that.” (p.159)
What game did Parzival have to win to obtain the copper key?
Fortnite
Joust
Pacman
Daggorath
Where did Parzival go after winning the bronze key?
Kansas City
Humble
Middletown
Batesburg
Who is Art3mis?
The strongest player in OASIS
A gunter and cyber babe
Wade's sister who he lost in OASIS
A member of the Rockets
