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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Woodrue explain about Swamp Thing's escape and return?
(a) That Woodrue had no part in Swamp Thing's escape and return.
(b) That Woodrue helped him by bringing him back to the swamp.
(c) That Woodrue almost killed Swamp Thing when he escaped.
(d) That Woodrue is Swamp Thing's best friend and wanted to help him.

3. Where are Abby Arcane and Matt Cable searching for Swamp Thing in Book Two?
(a) The New Orleans Penitentiary.
(b) Red Light District.
(c) Louisiana Main.
(d) The Louisiana bayou.

4. What does Moore point out from the 1980s that he says permeated popular culture?
(a) Horror iconography.
(b) Comic iconography.
(c) Suspense iconography.
(d) Magical iconography.

5. What small town does the Floronic Man enter in Book Three?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) Lacroix.
(d) Larue.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Campbell suggest a good writer use the DC universe to his or her advantage?

2. Who was Swamp Thing's original nemesis?

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

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

5. What does Swamp Thing do just in time after waking up from his dream state in Book Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Floronic Man view the Swamp thing when he offers him the human woman?

2. Who shrinks the Monkey King down in size and how?

3. Name two elements of the symbolism behind the inclusion of "Evangeline" in Swamp Thing.

4. What happens after Woodrue ingests a yam-like tuber growing from Swamp Thing's body?

5. In his introduction, what type of context did Alan Moore provide?

6. What is Woodrue's plan to kill the old man and does it work?

7. What universal human gesture does Moore use at the end of Book Four and why?

8. How does Book One open?

9. How does Moore employ dramatic irony in Book Six?

10. Who does Swamp Thing fight in Book Seven?

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