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Who was the dark figure following Gideon to the plane at the beginning of the book?
Dekaterina Pratel (Dek)
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Author of the Always War
Who is Margaret Peterson Haddix?
100
What is the point of view of the Always War ?
Third-Person Limited Omniscient
100
What are sycophants?
A self-serving, servile flatterer, a henchman, yes-men, posse, or cronies
100
Why doesn't Gideon see himself as a hero when the rest of his people believe this to be true?
His people are focused on the idea that Gideon is out there killing the enemy and protecting them, while Gideon sees the killing of men, women and children as wrong, even if they are the enemy and therefore, not the actions of a hero but a coward or murder
200
He felt shame for killing hundreds of men, women, and children in the war. However, his country saw him as a hero.
Who is Gideon Thrall?
200
When Gideon, Dek, and Tessa finally get a good look outside the plane in "enemy" territory, what do they discover about the war?
The enemy is not in there. The War is a fake.
200
What is Shargo and why are Gideon and Dek so horrified that that the plane decides to land there?
What is the largest city in enemy territory and the enemies main military facility? They thought they were going to die.
200
1. to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal 2. to act or work together toward the same result or goal. This is the definition to a word that describes the behaviors of the two war computers.
What is to Conspire?
200
Why isn't Dek thrilled to hear that the war was a fake and that no one was actually bombed?
Dek lost both of her parents to war preparation for a war that didn't exsist. Her mother died from chemical poisoning and her dad died in an bomb accident at the factory. To her their lives went from having meaning to being senseless deaths depriving her of a family.
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The protagonist of this story.
Who is Tessa Stilfin?
300
Once the Trio escape from the General's office, where do they go to get answers about why the war zone doesn't look like a war zone?
The control room to get answers from the computer.
300
What is the setting of this story?
Earth far far into the future. We know this because they make references to our history and books as well as using altered words to discuss our current water and land areas.
300
to move into (an organization, country, territory, or the like) secretly and gradually, especially with hostile or subversive intent.
What is infiltrating?
300
"War,"he said,"is a complicated thing. From a distance it looks black and white--us and them, life and death, heroes and enemies. But...up close...the boundaries are never so clearly drawn. There's a reason the hallways of our head-quarters are painted gray!" The general is unknowingly foreshadowing what event?
The reactions of the people in both countries to the news that their war has been a computer-generated lie for the past 75 years.
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The official that doesn't believe the trio, calling the Psych squad--forcing them to escape
Who is General Kantoff?
400
Now Dek was arguing with the computer. "You could ave made this a lot easier for us," she scolded. "Having us arrested....knocked out...imprisoned..." Why did the computer allow them to be captured once it knew they knew the truth if the whole point was to expose the lie about the war?
The computer was testing them to make sure they would have enough resolve to see the exposure of the lie through.
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Were Gideon, Tessa, and Dek the first humans to discover the lack of war in the war zone?
No, Tessa see many people who are convinced by the computer that they are wrong about what they have seen.
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"Listen," Gideon said. "I know it sounds counterintuitive. But I've been competing in military maneuvers against this computer system ever since I was a little kid. This setup"-- What does Gideon mean by "counterintuitive?"
Counterintuitive means the opposite of what a person's intuition (perceived truth) would tell them to do.
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"A computer can't commit treason," the voice said. "We can only do what we're programmed to do. I was programmed to find a way to win the war. And, if we'd destroyed everything, nobody ever could have won." If all senarios ended in global genecide, what solution for "winning the war" did the computer come up with?
The computer worked with the enemy's computer to move the countries to opposite sides of the world and then kept them from killing each other by focusing them on a fake air war.
500
Convinced the entire Eastdom that they were at war for more 75 years without dropping a bomb.
What is the Military Computer?
500
How is the lie exposed to the world?
The three tell their story give technical details about how the lie was pulled off on camera that sent all over the world to both cities.
500
Gideon buys a stolen plane and flies it into enemy territory. What was he hoping to do?
Gideon was hoping to atone for wrong he believed he committed against the people of the location he is landing in.
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Gideon's training has made him a strategist. What is a strategist?
An expert in strategy (a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result), especially in warfare.
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What was the war over? (why did the war start)
Despite there being enough water for everyone, neither side wanted to share the water.