Unwind

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which theme is best expressed by Risa’s character arc?

A) One Versus Many

B) What Is Morality?

C) The Truth Will Set You Free

D) Inner Versus Outer Strength

2. Which of the following is the best example of Connor’s strong sense of integrity?

A) Kidnapping Lev on the highway

B) Punching Lev in the face when he sees him in the Graveyard

C) Locking Roland in an empty crate with air holes

D) Picking up the storked baby while on the run

3. Which action creates the legend of the Akron AWOL?

A) Connor running from the Juvey cops

B) Connor walking to the Chop Shop with his head held high

C) Connor tranquilizing a cop with his own gun

D) Connor hitchhiking with a trucker

4. What allows the Admiral to build and keep his successful, yet illegal, network of Unwinds?

A) Bribery—he pays people to ignore his work and support his mission across the country.

B) Convenience—the Juvey cops have less work to do with fewer AWOL Unwinds on the streets.

C) Distraction—the Admiral lives a successful double life as a high-ranking military official.

D) Apathy—no one cares enough to chase Unwinds across the country, even with the promise of rewards.

5. Which event prompts Connor to learn to control his temper?

A) Getting betrayed by Lev

B) Writing a letter to his parents

C) A pep talk and a warning from Risa

D) Saving Risa from Roland’s assault

6. How does Lev’s time with CyFi change him?

A) He becomes less humble and surer of his choice to remain a tithe.

B) He becomes tougher and angrier with the world.

C) He becomes more sympathetic to other Unwinds but more fearful about survival.

D) He becomes more pious and more politically radical.

7. What does the legend of Humphrey Dunfee represent?

A) The horrors of biotechnology

B) The varied consequences of unwinding

C) The tragedy of stolen and wasted youth

D) The capricious logic of exhausted adults

8. What does the actual story of Humphrey Dunfee represent?

A) The ups and downs of human tribulations

B) Redemption for Admiral Dunfee and his ex-wife

C) The tragedy of stolen and wasted youth

D) Chances for life after death through reanimation

9. Happy Jack as a name for the harvest camp and the Graveyard as a name for the Unwind Sanctuary are both examples of which type of irony?

A) Structural

B) Dramatic

C) Verbal

D) Situational

10. The bright decor and clothing worn by adults at Happy Jack are examples of which type of irony?

A) Structural

B) Dramatic

C) Verbal

D) Situational

11. Connor ending up with Roland’s arm is an example of which literary device?

A) Poetic justice

B) Dramatic irony

C) Juxtaposition

D) Oxymoron

12. How are the tithes at the Harvest Camp similar to Lev’s character before his misadventures?

A) They are arrogant and pampered.

B) They are humble and pious.

C) They all love and respect their parents.

D) They are all afraid of dying.

13. Which of the following best describes the attitudes of the nurses and doctors who oversee Roland’s unwinding?

A) Oblivious and calculating

B) Curious and jovial

C) Callous and cruel

D) Rehearsed and apathetic

14. Which words best describe Lev’s character arc?

A) Courageous, capricious, contagious, clapper, confounded

B) Presumptive, adventurous, heroic, tragic, disheveled

C) Reverent, despicable, challenger, deceitful, disgraced

D) Pious, wayward, hardened, hateful, heroic

15. Which of the following motivates Risa’s character?

A) Showing others how to tread lightly

B) Securing the right to a life worth living

C) Love and lust for Connor

D) Responsibility to the Unwind community

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How do Risa and Connor manage the dangerous character, Roland?

2. How does Emby (Zachary) become “the central bumper on the pinball board [from which] every single ball in play [rebounds]”? (Chapter 37)