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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Show and Tell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?
(a) Idols
(b) Saints
(c) Pictorial
(d) Non-pictorial

2. Each new medium begins by imitating its _______.
(a) successors
(b) patients
(c) descendents
(d) predecessors

3. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?
(a) Robert Crumb
(b) Charles Schultz
(c) Carl Bark
(d) Rory Hayes

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?
(a) Self-fulfilling prophecy
(b) Ecological fallacy
(c) Learned helplessness
(d) Confirmation bias

5. In comics, words represent that which can only exist in time, _______.
(a) action
(b) movement
(c) smell
(d) sound

Short Answer Questions

1. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?

2. Due to the negative connotation of the word "comics," many comics artists have preferred to be known as ________________________.

3. Because artists don't expect audiences to identify with backgrounds such as brick walls or landscapes, backgrounds tend to be more ______ than the story's characters.

4. What transition offers no logical relationship between panels?

5. What did Eisner call a desperation device?

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