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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?
(a) Creator's.
(b) Reader/viewer's.
(c) Character's.
(d) The panel's.

2. What has primacy over text in comics?
(a) The image.
(b) Sound and song.
(c) Body posture and gesture.
(d) The font.

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

4. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Triangles.
(d) Trapezoids.

5. What kind of judgments do people make about faces?
(a) No judgments.
(b) Half-hearted judgments.
(c) Important daily judgments.
(d) Only inconsequential judgments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?

2. What are gestures "almost idiomatic" to?

3. What must artists know about the force of gravity?

4. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?

5. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?

(see the answer key)

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