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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?
(a) The text is lettered in a similar style.
(b) The text is lettered in teardrops.
(c) The text is broken into many balloons.
(d) The text is fragmented across the panel.

2. When speed lines indicate motion they are part of what language?
(a) Visual.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Syntactic.
(d) Mental.

3. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?
(a) The early literary diet.
(b) The philosophical years.
(c) Late puberty.
(d) The toddler phase.

4. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?
(a) Lightning.
(b) Snow.
(c) Wind.
(d) Rain.

5. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) Phoenician watercolors.
(b) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.
(c) Linear art.
(d) The modern form of sequential art.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can a panel be diagrammed?

2. What did comics evolve into?

3. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?

4. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?

5. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?

(see the answer key)

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