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.

1. Why does Wade sleep in the laundry room at his aunt’s house?

2. What is Art3mis’s plan if she wins the contest?

3. What does Wade have to do after finding the first key?

4. Why can’t Wade travel off-world?

5. What happens when Wade refuses Sorrento’s offers?

6. What happens to Wade’s school after the First Gate is cleared?

Level Two: Chapters 17-27

Reading Check

1. What does Art3mis study in college?

2. Who is Max?

3. What is Wade’s primary source of income?

4. What happens to Daito?

5. What band does Wade research to find the Crystal Key?

6. What is the name of Parzival’s ship?

Multiple Choice

1. Where is Morrow’s birthday party held?

A) at a bar in a red zone

B) at a dance club in a PVP zone

C) at a hotel in a co-op zone

D) in his private virtual room

2. How does Wade unlock his OASIS rig every morning?

A) singing one of Halliday’s favorite songs

B) entering a physical glyph code

C) correctly solving a series of math problems

D) completing an exercise requirement

3. What does Hayata’s Beta Capsule do?

A) allows an avatar to turn into Ultraman once a day

B) grants the avatar high-level martial arts skills

C) provides the use of a pulse grenade

D) contains a tiny Hayata ship that expands when opened

4. Who finds the Jade Key first?

A) Parzival

B) Sorrento

C) Art3mis

D) Aech

5. What does Wade receive while on Archaide?

A) a quarter

B) an arcade token

C) a free pizza

D) arcade tickets

6. Who clears the Second Gate first?

A) Parzival

B) Sorrento

C) Art3mis

D) Aech

Short-Answer Response

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

1. Why does Art3mis prefer text-based chat?

2. What family situation do Wade and Art3mis have in common?

3. Why doesn’t Wade attend his graduation ceremony?

4. What does Shoto give to Wade and why?

5. Why does Aech send Wade the picture of the instruction booklet of Zork?

6. Why are there so many copies of the Tyrell Building in the OASIS?

Level Three: Chapters 28-39

Reading Check

1. What does Wade say is the real reason he went through with his plan?

2. What shows on the TV in Wade’s IOI living space?

3. Where does Wade get the IOI passwords he uses to get the information dossiers?

4. Who interrupts the High Five’s meeting?

5. Where does Wade go after finishing the Monty Python simulation?

6. What does Halliday show Wade in the castle that only he now has access to?

Multiple Choice

1. What does Wade become at IOI?

A) a digital janitor

B) an indentured employee

C) an oologist

D) a virtual architect

2. Which tests does Wade intentionally fail?

A) technical knowledge

B) OASIS architecture

C) IOI literacy

D) Halliday history

3. Where does Wade work at IOI?

A) gunter research hotline

B) tech support call center

C) OASIS payment center

D) hapsuit retail store

4. Which one of the High Five do the Sixers not have information about?

A) Parzival

B) Daito

C) Art3mis

D) Aech

5. Why does Wade decide he needs to leave IOI sooner than planned?

A) to get to the Crystal Key

B) to save Og from assassination

C) to save Art3mis and Shoto from Sorrento

D) to reclaim his identity

6. What does Halliday tell Wade not to do?

A) hide in the OASIS forever

B) underestimate his responsibility

C) trust Og

D) take revenge on Sorrento

Short-Answer Response

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

1. How does Wade get himself arrested?

2. Why doesn’t Wade tell Art3mis, Aech, or Shoto his plan?

3. What does Wade do with the data he steals from the Sixers?

4. Why does Wade have to be arrested for his plan to work?

5. What about Wade’s plan makes Art3mis angry?

6. Why is Wade surprised when he sees Aech in real life?