Ready Player One

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Level One: Prologue-Chapter 16

Reading Check

1. Which key was the first to be found?

2. What initials are on the Scoreboard when it first appears?

3. What does the winner of the contest get?

4. In what year does Wade find the first key?

5. What role is Wade offered at IOI?

6. Who are the High Five?

Multiple Choice

1. What was the name of James Halliday’s avatar?

A) Anagram

B) Anarok

C) Anubis

D) Anonym0us

2. What song begins the short film announcing the contest?

A) “Don’t Stop the Party”

B) “Death of a Party”

C) “Party in the USA”

D) “Dead Man’s Party”

3. What wakes up Wade in the first chapter?

A) gunfire

B) smoke

C) his aunt

D) an earthquake

4. Who are the Sixers?

A) the high school’s football team

B) OASIS police

C) employees of IOI

D) a team of hackers

5. What is inside the First Gate?

A) a movie simulation

B) a game of Joust

C) a ninja guardian

D) another gate

6. Why isn’t the trailer park explosion investigated?

A) no one cared about the slums

B) a group of rival gunters confessed

C) a live feed showed who planted the bomb

D) IOI planted drug equipment at the site

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.