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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Putting It All Together.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT listed as a flat-color master?
(a) McCay
(b) Masereel
(c) Cole
(d) Barks

2. Within a comic storyline, what is the amount of time that passes from one panel to the next?
(a) Varies
(b) One day
(c) One second
(d) One minute

3. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?
(a) Louis Ducos Du Hauron
(b) Alexander Graham Bell
(c) Sir James Clerk
(d) Lord Kelvin

4. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.
(a) humorous; generous
(b) divisive; multiplicative
(c) meaningless; abstract
(d) subtractive; additive

5. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) punctuation
(b) grammar
(c) capitalization
(d) speech

Short Answer Questions

1. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.

2. What year is the "artificial" starting point of comics, according to McCloud?

3. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-expression and communication?

4. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?

5. Media grows out of our inability to communicate from _______ to ________.

(see the answer key)

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