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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How could Swamp Thing's problem be classified?

2. What was Swamp Thing, originally?

3. What does Woodrue plot to do to the old man?

4. What gradually covers the old man?

5. How is Woodrue's story misleading to Abby and Matt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name two macabre elements employed within Book Two.

2. What does the Floronic Man telepathically order to happen to the buildings in Lacroix?

3. What does the strange boy at the Elysium Lawns Center for Autistic Children ask everyone to do?

4. What does a police officer do after he watches Anslinger's tape?

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

6. How does the Floronic Man pass as a human?

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

8. Why is Book One told primarily in first-person?

9. What makes Ramsey Campbell call Moore's Swamp Thing a "poetic reinvention"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Book Two presents Swamp Thing and the Floronic Man as foils of each other. Define foil as it is used in Swamp Thing, then describe the historic use of foils in fiction. Finally, using the book as primary evidence, argue whether or not Swamp Thing and the Floronic Man are ideal foils of each other.

Essay Topic 2

In Book One, Jason Woodrue promotes the idea that consciousness can be passed between beings through consumption. First, examine the relationship between food and thought as depicted by the images and words in the comic as Moore shows it. Second, answer the following question: How does the former idea affect the storyline in Swamp Thing? Support your argument with at least two logical examples that have supporting evidence in the book Swamp Thing.

Essay Topic 3

Since the artist controls the orientation of the reader/viewer's perspective, the artist functions somewhat like a director of the comic. Moore uses sensory detail to grip the reader. When presenting Paul's memory of the Monkey King, Moore uses several sensory details to depict horror. Identify three of these sensory details and explain how they intensify Paul's memory and engage the audience in his horrific past.

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