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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Living in Line.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is an assumption that comics artists make about the reader?
(a) They read the panels in correct order.
(b) They have read previous stories in the series.
(c) They read the comics in one sitting.
(d) They will like the story.

2. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?
(a) G. Hernandez
(b) Spiegelman
(c) Jack Kirby
(d) Osamu Tezuka

3. What additional early examples of comics does the author mention but NOT cover?
(a) Trajan's column
(b) All of the above
(c) Japanese scrolls
(d) Greek painting

4. Which of the following point in time of the panel is represented by where your eyes are focused?
(a) Depends
(b) Present
(c) Future
(d) Past

5. How are Egyptian paintings read?
(a) Right to left
(b) Left to right
(c) Up to down
(d) Zig-zag

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?

2. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.

3. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."

4. What is another word for motion lines?

5. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.

(see the answer key)

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