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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?
(a) Little knowledge.
(b) Belief.
(c) Technical practice.
(d) Extra sophistication.

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

3. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.
(b) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(c) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.
(d) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.

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

5. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The strained context of the image.
(b) The fluid lines of the image.
(c) The speed of the action.
(d) The proximity of the action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?

2. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

3. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?

4. The sequential artist and the reader must share what kind of experience?

5. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?

(see the answer key)

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