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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the chapter in which Evey leaves the prison?

2. What does the little girl do when she hears that no one is watching?

3. Who is watching Helen's meeting with Harper?

4. How does Evey initially react to V's reason for imprisoning her?

5. After Mr. Finch takes drugs, what does he discover that he is wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two people does Evey initially imagine V to be after V dies, and why do you think she does this?

2. What does the reader learn about the story's minor characters from the vignettes?

3. What does V say in his radio broadcast?

4. In her first appearance as V, what does Evey tell the people of London?

5. What does Rosemary imagine as she dances on stage, and why is this important?

6. When the guard gives Evey one last chance to give in, what does she say, and what does this say about her character?

7. What is the nature of Conrad's relationship with Helen, and what does Helen want Conrad to do?

8. What does Adam Susan ask the computer in the Book Three Prologue, and why is this significant?

9. Why does V inflict only a minor wound on Mr. Finch, and why does he make it so easy for Mr. Finch to find him?

10. Explain why V says that Evey has been "in a prison all her life."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the bishop. How does his character represent the problems with the fascist society?

Essay Topic 2

What two political extremes do V and Adam Susan represent? Which do you think is more fair to its citizens? Do you think that the citizens in the story benefit more from a less extreme philosophy?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how and why Mr. Finch's attitude toward V changes throughout the story, citing examples from the story.

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