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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What transition requires deductive reasoning and transports the reader across significant distances of time and space?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Moment-to-moment
(c) Subject-to-subject
(d) Aspect-to-aspect

2. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"
(a) Pictographs
(b) Movies
(c) Ideas
(d) Words

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

4. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Osamu Tezuka
(b) Herge
(c) Jack Kirby
(d) Marshall McLuhan

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

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

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

8. What transition bypasses time and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of the same place, idea or mood?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Moment-to-moment
(d) Action-to-action

9. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.
(a) six
(b) one
(c) five
(d) three

10. Who was the first artist to present specific motions in a panel-to-panel form?
(a) Herge
(b) Topffer
(c) Tezuka
(d) Duchamp

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

12. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?
(a) A form of amplification through simplification
(b) A form of compression through simplification
(c) A form of amplification through complication
(d) A form of compression through complication

13. Who is the author of the book?
(a) Scott McCloud
(b) Rudolphe Töpffer
(c) Stan Lee
(d) Will Eisner

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

15. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?
(a) Intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer
(b) Animation
(c) Juxtaposed pictorial and other images
(d) In deliberate sequence

Short Answer Questions

1. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

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

3. Who is the 44th comic artist listed in the triangle?

4. Comic panels break up which of the following?

5. How are Egyptian paintings read?

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