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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, A Word about Color.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eisner call a desperation device?
(a) Motion line
(b) Word balloon
(c) Aspect-to-aspect
(d) Sound effects

2. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?
(a) Interdependent combination of words and pictures
(b) Panel borders
(c) All of the above
(d) Cartooning

3. What is typically the second most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Action-to-action
(b) Subject-to-subject
(c) Moment-to-moment
(d) Scene-to-scene

4. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?
(a) Roman rulers
(b) Egyptian accountants
(c) Ancient Greeks
(d) Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia

5. In black and white, the ideas ______ the art are communicated more ______.
(a) in front of; directly
(b) behind; indirectly
(c) in front of; indirectly
(d) behind; directly

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a storyteller who says something through comics and controlling their medium?

2. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?

3. When does the author begin practicing to be a comics artist?

4. Words and pictures have historically been thought of as base or simplistic. As a result of this mindset, current works of words and pictures have been base and simplistic. This is an example of what psychological phenomenon?

5. Whose artwork incorporated mad lines to create crazy toddler?

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