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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have Swamp Thing's eye sockets and mouth area filled up with in the beginning of Book Two?
(a) Fire.
(b) Water.
(c) Milk.
(d) Juice.

2. What happens after the Floronic Man orders the young boy to record?
(a) The Floronic Man kills Abby Arcane.
(b) The Floronic Man lights a match.
(c) The boy runs away in fear.
(d) The Floronic Man traps the town in vegetation.

3. What comparison is drawn by Woodrue concerning consciousness and wise men?
(a) Men are only wise if they lose consciousness.
(b) True consciousness is only given to the wise men.
(c) Cannibals eat wise men to gain knowledge.
(d) Consciousness manifests in wise women, not men.

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

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

6. What does Swamp Thing do just in time after waking up from his dream state in Book Three?
(a) Save some snakes in the swamp.
(b) Catch the sunset.
(c) Regenerate.
(d) Save Abby Arcane.

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

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

9. Who does the Floronic Man kill toward the end of Book Three?
(a) William Anslinger.
(b) The local sheriff.
(c) The local sheriff's wife.
(d) His neighbor, Trisha.

10. What is Alec Holland's formula called?
(a) Meta-gnosic formula.
(b) Bio-organic compound.
(c) Bio-restorative formula.
(d) Organic restorative juice.

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

12. What kind of apocalypse is pronounced to be coming from the hands of the Floronic Man?
(a) The "swamp apocalypse."
(b) The "zombie apocalypse."
(c) The "green apocalypse."
(d) The "red apocalypse."

13. What does Swamp Thing discover in Book Two that distresses him?
(a) His toes aren't working.
(b) He has frostbite.
(c) His girlfriend left him.
(d) He is no longer Alec Holland.

14. What is one consequence of Moore's comic book horror?
(a) The Justice League doesn't exist.
(b) Swamp Thing becomes a villain in the DC universe.
(c) Swamp Thing exists in the same universe as Superman and Batman.
(d) Superheroes are reduced to comical archetypes.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Woodrue take from Swamp Thing's body?

2. What talks to Swamp Thing and convinces him of fighting for his own humanity?

3. What is overtaken by earth's plant consciousness?

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

5. During Book Three, what does a police officer do after hearing about the destruction of a neighboring town?

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