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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 the original character of Swamp Thing re-emerges as?
(a) An "accomplishment of Alan Moore's mind."
(b) A "poetic reinvention."
(c) An "abstraction."
(d) A "fool."

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

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

4. What does Campbell make a case for concerning Alan Moore's Swamp Thing?
(a) That the comic book medium can't be rescued.
(b) That the comic book genre is too trite.
(c) That the comic book medium is a legitimate art form.
(d) That the comic book medium is better than poetry.

5. When was the idea of Swamp Thing first conceived?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Woodrue made of?

2. What kind of horrors does Campbell mention that the population of the 1980s had to encounter?

3. What did Alan Moore do differently with Swamp Thing from Campbell's viewpoint?

4. Who leads the government agency that pursues and tries to kill Swamp Thing?

5. What does Woodrue plot to do to the old man?

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