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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 fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Orange
(b) Apple
(c) Peach
(d) Banana

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

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.
(a) simplified
(b) realistic
(c) non-existent
(d) abstract

4. Which of the following artists was NOT known for a more subjective palette?
(a) Moebius
(b) Clavelous
(c) Caza
(d) Herges

5. Who said, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible?"
(a) French poet Baudelaire
(b) Wassily Kandinsky
(c) Richard Wagner
(d) Paul Klee

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. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?

3. What is a powerful force that happens between the panels that allows viewers to use their imagination?

4. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?

5. What step determines whether the art will be a book, a sculpture or a song?

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