Comics and Sequential Art Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Comics and Sequential Art Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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 teardrops.
(b) The text is lettered in a similar style.
(c) The text is fragmented across the panel.
(d) The text is broken into many balloons.

2. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?
(a) Character development.
(b) Blocking.
(c) Timing.
(d) Spacing.

3. What novelty can suggest dimension and involve the reader/viewer better than a regular container?
(a) Using 3D imagery.
(b) Using accompanying CDs to explain the pages.
(c) Using rulers to structure lines clearly.
(d) Using doorways or windows to frame a panel.

4. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?
(a) Partly in astrological charts.
(b) Partly in Yiddish.
(c) Partly in Celtic runes.
(d) Partly in Hebraic style.

5. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?
(a) Phrasal verbs.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Ink.
(d) Tone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What long Spirit story does Eisner analyze in Chapter 3?

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

3. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?

4. How do balloons function for speech in comics?

5. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share life experiences for communication to occur?

2. Give examples of different lettering techniques or styles from Eisner's story Contract with God.

3. Why do images without words require extra sophistication in the reader/viewer?

4. Why is time more illusory in comics?

5. What convention does Eisner break while depicting the scene of the hero's flight?

6. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 4.

7. Why is text sometimes lettered in a style consistent with the sentiment of a scene?

8. Besides the text in comics, what must the reader/viewer "read"?

9. What obstacle of the eye must the artist try to obliterate?

10. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 2.

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