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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What gradually covers the old man?
(a) Blood.
(b) Moss.
(c) Rain.
(d) Slime.

3. What did the man arrange with Woodrue in exchange for performing an autopsy/dissection of Swamp Thing?
(a) 2,000 dollars.
(b) Absolution.
(c) An escape vehicle.
(d) Release from prison.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one difference in comic book horror that distinguishes it from other genres?

2. What comparison is drawn by Woodrue concerning consciousness and wise men?

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

4. Which Edgar Allen Poe short story is Book One clearly modeled after?

5. What does Campbell explain was probably in print before the average reader was born?

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