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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. What was Swamp Thing, originally?

2. What happens after the Floronic Man orders the young boy to record?

3. Who leads the government agency that pursues and tries to kill Swamp Thing?

4. What kind of apocalypse is pronounced to be coming from the hands of the Floronic Man?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Abby is characterized in Book Five?

2. How does the Floronic Man react to the logic shown by Swamp Thing in Book Four?

3. What fear of Abby's does The Monkey King prey upon?

4. How does The Monkey King operate?

5. How does Book One open?

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

7. Who fetches "Evangeline" and why?

8. How does Jason Blood figure out how the The Monkey King got loose?

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

10. How did the swamp take on Alec Holland's consciousness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Book Six grips the audience in the tension surrounding the Monkey King's dangerous presence. Define dramatic irony. How does Moore utilize dramatic irony when building tension around the Monkey King? How is this type of tension used throughout Swamp Thing and what is its relationship to horror fiction? Use material from Books One to Six to support your examples.

Essay Topic 2

In the introduction by Alan Moore, Moore discusses horror iconography. How does Moore define the tension between real-life horror and horror fiction? Describe the horror iconography of the 1980s. Use three examples from Swamp Thing that depict or allude to horror icons of the 1980s.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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