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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does fictional horror usually depend upon according to Campbell?
(a) Elevated diction.
(b) Men in tights to save the day.
(c) A carefully contained and controlled environment.
(d) Heartwarming relationships.

2. Where is Swamp Thing when he remembers Alec's wedding?
(a) In the shadowlands.
(b) In the bayou.
(c) In a painting.
(d) In a surrealist dreamscape.

3. What was the original story of Swamp Thing about?
(a) Mrs. Holland and Abby Arcane.
(b) Alec Holland and his cousin.
(c) Alec Holland and his wife.
(d) Alec Holland and Abby Arcane.

4. What is one difference in comic book horror that distinguishes it from other genres?
(a) Usage of similes.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Duration.
(d) Usage of metaphors.

5. What does Swamp Thing sense while in his coma in Book Three?
(a) The weather patterns.
(b) The innate wrongness of Floronic Man.
(c) The shifting earth.
(d) That Abby is in love with him.

6. What small town does the Floronic Man enter in Book Three?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Lacroix.
(c) Baton Rouge.
(d) Larue.

7. What does Campbell believe about Moore's work on Swamp Thing?
(a) It is a travesty of fiction.
(b) It is one of the finest examples of contemporary horror fiction.
(c) It is a work in progress.
(d) It is the greatest example of poetic diction.

8. What does Swamp Thing discover in Book Two that distresses him?
(a) His girlfriend left him.
(b) He has frostbite.
(c) He is no longer Alec Holland.
(d) His toes aren't working.

9. What does Woodrue spray on himself to pass for a human?
(a) Paint.
(b) Residual homobiology.
(c) Skin.
(d) Amber.

10. What is the weather like during the murder of the old man?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Snowing.
(c) Raining heavily.
(d) Sleeting.

11. What have Swamp Thing's eye sockets and mouth area filled up with in the beginning of Book Two?
(a) Milk.
(b) Juice.
(c) Water.
(d) Fire.

12. Who is Swamp Thing battling against for his humanity?
(a) Ghouls.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Bullies.
(d) Monsters.

13. What kind of horrors does Campbell mention that the population of the 1980s had to encounter?
(a) AIDS, nuclear proliferation, and rises in missing children.
(b) Supervillains, AIDS, black holes.
(c) Tornadoes, earthquakes, sub-atomic particles.
(d) Bad haircuts, AIDS, cryogenics.

14. Who disallows Woodrue from pursuing further research?
(a) Alec Holland.
(b) The old man.
(c) Abby Arcane.
(d) Swamp Thing.

15. What do three young men decide to do out on the bayou?
(a) Take a swim.
(b) Rescue their lost sister.
(c) Wrestle a gator.
(d) Take a joyride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "consumed" Alec Holland?

2. What does Swamp Thing compare Floronic Man's character to in Book Three?

3. How does the coloring change in Swamp Thing's dream sequences during Book Two?

4. During Book Three, what does the Floronic Man send the young boy off who recorded for him to do?

5. What is wrong with Swamp Thing when Abby and Matt find him?

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