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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Blood in the Gutter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?
(a) Single-panel cartoons
(b) Diagrams
(c) Hieroglyphics
(d) Live-action movies

2. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?
(a) A form of compression through complication
(b) A form of amplification through simplification
(c) A form of amplification through complication
(d) A form of compression through simplification

3. Who is the 44th comic artist listed in the triangle?
(a) Craig Russell
(b) Mary Fleener
(c) Lynda Barry
(d) Gilbert Hernandez

4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?
(a) Juxtaposed pictorial and other images
(b) Animation
(c) Intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer
(d) In deliberate sequence

5. This effect of contrasting characters and backgrounds is used by which of the following?
(a) All of the following
(b) Disney
(c) Jacques Tardi
(d) Tintin

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre cannot exist in comics?

2. What transition stays within a scene or idea and requires more closure from the reader in order to find the transition meaningful?

3. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Herges' style is typically comprised of __________________.

4. What transition features a single subject in distinct progressions?

5. When reading comics, how many senses are used between panels?

(see the answer key)

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