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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can the frame's shape or absence convey?
(a) Character development.
(b) The profession of the artist.
(c) The progression of emotion.
(d) The sound and emotion of the action.

2. What is often predetermined by the nature of the story?
(a) Graphic or illustrative style.
(b) Surrealist or Dada style.
(c) Humorous or realistic style.
(d) Linear or algebraic style.

3. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?
(a) Heavy marking.
(b) Exaggerated gesture.
(c) Clear blocking.
(d) Simple, concise images.

4. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?
(a) As a pure visual without text.
(b) As a blank space.
(c) With no visuals only text.
(d) With the text.

5. What do comics largely emulate?
(a) Visual aesthetics.
(b) Surrealist perspectives.
(c) Angelic visions.
(d) Real experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?

2. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

3. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

4. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?

5. What tendency of the eye is an obstacle in comics?

(see the answer key)

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