A good answer might be:

Yes. The new arrangement of memory implements the logical structure of the linked list.

Memory Dump

Here is the code fragment (again):

          .data
elmnt01:  .word  1
          .word  elmnt02

elmnt02:  .word  2
          .word  elmnt03

elmnt03:  .word  3
          .word  elmnt04

elmnt04:  .word  5
          .word  elmnt05

elmnt05:  .word  7
          .word  0

And here is how it is assembled by SPIM:

Each element consists of two words of data: the integer followed by the address of the next node. In this memory dump the nodes follow each other in order.

QUESTION 9:

At what address is the first element in the linked list?

What is the address in its link field?

What is the address of the second element in the linked list?