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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Abby Arcane.
(d) Alec Holland and his wife.

2. Whose file does Swamp Thing read after he regenerates and reawakens?
(a) Abby's file.
(b) Woodrue's file.
(c) The old man's file.
(d) Paul's file.

3. 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 too cynical.
(d) The stories were often shrill, obvious and melodramatic.

4. How could Swamp Thing's problem be classified?
(a) As biological.
(b) As militant.
(c) As psychological.
(d) As spiritual.

5. During Book Three, what does the Floronic Man send the young boy off who recorded for him to do?
(a) Find Abby Arcane.
(b) Warn the world of the Floronic Man and his plan.
(c) Find his brother, the Metatonic Man.
(d) Find a battery for the video camera.

6. What kind of ear does Campbell claim Alan Moore has for dialogue?
(a) Unerring.
(b) Unbalanced.
(c) Strange.
(d) Errant.

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

8. How is Woodrue envious of Swamp Thing?
(a) He envies Swamp Thing's compassion.
(b) He envies Swamp Thing's serenity.
(c) He envies Swamp Thing's strength.
(d) He envies Swamp Thing's friends.

9. What does Woodrue find when he dissects Swamp Thing?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Alec Holland's skull.
(c) Three hearts.
(d) Organs that don't function.

10. What happens to the three young men out on the bayou?
(a) They are strangled to death.
(b) They get eaten by an alligator.
(c) Their sister finds them, instead.
(d) They are told to go home.

11. How does Swamp Thing know that something is wrong in the beginning of Book Three?
(a) His consciousness feels something is wrong.
(b) The Floronic Man told him.
(c) Abby told him something was wrong.
(d) He can smell danger.

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

13. How does Woodrue connect his mind to a flower that grew from Swamp Thing?
(a) Via telepathy.
(b) Via metastasis.
(c) Via osmosis.
(d) Via an electrical device.

14. During Book Three, what does a police officer do after hearing about the destruction of a neighboring town?
(a) He moves his family to the city.
(b) He abandons his family.
(c) He goes into shock.
(d) He destroys his house plants and kills his lawn with a toxic herbicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What small town does the Floronic Man enter in Book Three?

2. At what kind of rate does the Floronic Man cause the plants to produce oxygen in the young boy's town during the recording?

3. What have Swamp Thing's eye sockets and mouth area filled up with in the beginning of Book Two?

4. What was Swamp Thing encased in?

5. What does Campbell make a case for concerning Alan Moore's Swamp Thing?

(see the answer keys)

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