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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Campbell say about the stories of the late 1960s?
(a) The stories were too cynical.
(b) The stories were often happy and blissful.
(c) The stories were often shrill, obvious and melodramatic.
(d) The stories were radical and life-changing.

2. How does Swamp Thing react to reading the file?
(a) Leaves in a neutral state.
(b) Dies.
(c) He enters a psychotic rage.
(d) Regenerates again.

3. What does Campbell explain was probably in print before the average reader was born?
(a) Every extended metaphor.
(b) Any use of simile.
(c) Every plot line.
(d) Any given title or character.

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

5. Which Edgar Allen Poe short story is Book One clearly modeled after?
(a) "The Raven."
(b) "The Sycamore."
(c) "The Tell-Tale Heart."
(d) "The Harem and Prince."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Woodrue made of?

2. What was Swamp Thing, originally?

3. How does Campbell describe the types of new themes that were discussed?

4. Why does Moore think fictional horror is popular?

5. What does Woodrue find when he dissects Swamp Thing?

(see the answer key)

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