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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system does Woodrue take over that allows him to control doors, etc.?
(a) The medical system.
(b) The plumbing system.
(c) The radial heating system.
(d) The building's computer system.

2. 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 destroys his house plants and kills his lawn with a toxic herbicide.
(d) He goes into shock.

3. How do Swamp Thing's fingers extend?
(a) Like vines.
(b) At the push of a button.
(c) Like webs.
(d) With mechanical triggers.

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

5. What does Swamp Thing sense while in his coma in Book Three?
(a) The weather patterns.
(b) That Abby is in love with him.
(c) The shifting earth.
(d) The innate wrongness of Floronic Man.

6. How does Abby Arcane react to Swamp Thing's distress?
(a) She becomes very emotional.
(b) She becomes very logical.
(c) She doesn't say a word.
(d) She walks away.

7. What does Woodrue plot to do to the old man?
(a) Kill his children.
(b) Scare him.
(c) Imprison him.
(d) Kill him.

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

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

10. What does Woodrue gain from connecting his mind to a flower grown from Swamp Thing?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) Megalomania.
(c) An evil view.
(d) The consciousness of all vegetation.

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

12. What is dangerous about this "hyperoxygenated" state the Floronic Man puts the plants in?
(a) This state is actually "hypooxygenated."
(b) This state is not dangerous.
(c) This state is very volatile.
(d) This state is very static.

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

14. How does the coloring change in Swamp Thing's dream sequences during Book Two?
(a) It turns black and white.
(b) It changes to a more pastel hue.
(c) It becomes more vibrant.
(d) The coloring becomes red and yellow.

15. What sort of parallel storylines does Book Three set up?
(a) A quickly finished set of storylines.
(b) A race of parallel storylines with a time constraint.
(c) An epic five part story.
(d) A meandering set of storylines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fictional horror usually depend upon according to Campbell?

2. Why does Moore think fictional horror is popular?

3. How does Woodrue actually look when not in disguise?

4. What did the man arrange with Woodrue in exchange for performing an autopsy/dissection of Swamp Thing?

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

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