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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Swamp Thing's status quo at the beginning of Book Three?
(a) Angst.
(b) Complete inner peace.
(c) Complete anger.
(d) Ignorant bliss.

2. Which young boy does the Floronic Man order to fetch a video camera for recording?
(a) Billy Bob Armslinger.
(b) William Anslinger.
(c) Will Arlington.
(d) Milton Ansling.

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

4. What does Campbell explain the comic genre would not have without the late 1960s period?
(a) The excellent writer, Alan Moore.
(b) The interesting theorist, Scott McLeod.
(c) The crazed philosopher, Sartre.
(d) The brilliant artist, Ashley Wood.

5. How can the first depiction of Swamp Thing in Book Two be described?
(a) Startling.
(b) Mind-altering.
(c) Welcoming.
(d) Gracious.

6. What sort of parallel storylines does Book Three set up?
(a) A meandering set of storylines.
(b) An epic five part story.
(c) A race of parallel storylines with a time constraint.
(d) A quickly finished set of storylines.

7. What does Woodrue do with the article he takes from Swamp Thing?
(a) He ingests it.
(b) He throws it away.
(c) He hides it.
(d) He chops it up into tiny pieces.

8. What does Swamp Thing compare Floronic Man's character to in Book Three?
(a) A chemical.
(b) An organ.
(c) A metastatis.
(d) A cancer.

9. Where is Swamp Thing when the old man takes a peek at him?
(a) The cryochamber.
(b) The center tech room.
(c) The hydroponic chamber.
(d) The airgas chamber.

10. What is Swamp Thing truly?
(a) Half-bone, half-meat.
(b) A golem, purely plant.
(c) Half-fruit, half-heart.
(d) Half-wood, half-plant.

11. What does the Floronic Man telepathically order many of the buildings in the town to do?
(a) Blow up.
(b) Be crushed by huge vines.
(c) Sink beneath the sea.
(d) Dissolve into dust.

12. What is overtaken by earth's plant consciousness?
(a) Swamp Thing's humanity.
(b) Abby's body.
(c) Matt's alcoholism.
(d) Woodrue's humanity.

13. How does Campbell describe the types of new themes that were discussed?
(a) Cynical politics.
(b) Darker, edgier themes.
(c) Softer, more abstract ideas.
(d) Philosophical conundrums.

14. What does Woodrue believe about consciousness?
(a) That consciousness is only a manifestation of the soul.
(b) That it can be regenerated.
(c) That it can be passed along by foodstuffs.
(d) That consciousness never dies.

15. How does Woodrue actually look when not in disguise?
(a) Wheat grains and barley.
(b) A red bark creature.
(c) Like a weeping willow.
(d) A yellow bark and leaf covered creature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abby Arcane react to Swamp Thing's distress?

2. What does Campbell say the original character of Swamp Thing re-emerges as?

3. How does Swamp Thing react to reading the file?

4. What does the old man want to know about the formula's impact on Swamp Thing?

5. What does Woodrue gain from connecting his mind to a flower grown from Swamp Thing?

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