Hello, class -- Thanks for joining me, and I hope you all enjoyed Mr. Goodson in my absence. Your quiz this week will be based on "Delete," a brief synopsis of which is provided below for those of you who didn't do your homework. Eyes on your own papers, please.

Clark, Lana and other Smallvillagers are infected by an email-based virus that causes them to attack Chloe, who has lost her job at the Daily Planet after defying Lionel Luthor.

At the bottom of the mystery is an attractive computer hacker recently 'graduated' from the Summerholt mind control research facility, possibly still under its control. Lana and Adam argue about his secrecy, although he makes plans to stay in Smallville in the apartment above the Talon. Lex tries to enlist the Summerholt Institute's help to regain his recently wiped memories.

The questions that follow are absolutely genuine. I'd love to hear your answers, because I don't have the faintest clue how the producers intended that episode to read. The developments it suggests are unlikely at best (question 6) or impossible at worst (essay #1). This show has very little internal consistency, however, so I suppose anything could be possible.

1. T or F: The catfight sequence between Lana and Chloe had already gone on too long before it entered the girls' locker room.

2. What was the significance of Chloe giving her cousin's name, Lois Lane, as a pseudonym?
a) We're going to meet Lois by May sweeps.
b) She will continue to use Lois as her professional name and is therefore Clark's one true loooooooove.
c) Nothing; it was simply another dropped reference to appease the fanboys.

3. T or F: Clark should not fall victim to hypnotic or subliminal messages hidden in his email; his Kryptonian physiology and ability for superspeed ought to make him impervious to such ploys.

4. Chloe has now been endangered how many times?
a) 15
b) 35
c) Not enough to make her less stupid.

5. T or F: Adam was being sarcastic when he said Lana and Clark were too "comfortable" around each other to be "just friends."

6. Lex will regain how much of his memory?
a) Enough to remember Clark's secret
b) Only enough to accuse Lionel of killing his parents
c) Nothing, because that kind of forward momentum might kill the show.

7. T or F: I did not remember Summerholt at all from its establishment in Ryan.

Essay Portion

Some have posited the character of Adam as a Bruce Wayne stand-in; discuss the ways in which this demonstrates the widely-held belief that Superman is a weak character who needs the darker influences of Batman to make him interesting, then refute those claims.

Present at least three ways this show could do justice to the characters of Jonathan, Martha, and Pete.

Extra Credit: Why do all the men on this show wear so much blush?

Really, seriously, I'd love an answer on that last one.

Sarah Stanek