Understanding Comics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Understanding Comics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who painted "The Treachery of Images?"
(a) Jack Kirby
(b) Magritte
(c) Kurtzman
(d) Sergio Aragones

2. Pictures are ______ information. Writing is _______ information.
(a) received; perceived
(b) perceived; received
(c) perceived; perceived
(d) received; received

3. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."
(a) content
(b) message
(c) vessel
(d) cartoon

4. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?
(a) Map
(b) Reality
(c) Picture Plane
(d) Language

5. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing
(b) Any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea
(c) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
(d) A representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the screenfold of 8-Deer "Tiger's-Claw" that was discovered by Cortes around 1519?

2. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?

3. Comic panels break up which of the following?

4. Herge's Tintin was characterized by very iconic characters with unusually realistic backgrounds. This style is called _______.

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

(see the answer key)

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