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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Mary Fleener's style is NOT typically comprised of ________.
(a) iconic content
(b) non-iconic content
(c) reality
(d) language

4. What object is painted in "The Treachery of Images?"
(a) A drum
(b) A pipe
(c) A flute
(d) A spoon

5. Who painted "The Treachery of Images?"
(a) Sergio Aragones
(b) Kurtzman
(c) Jack Kirby
(d) Magritte

Short Answer Questions

1. What panel-to-panel transition requires the least amount of closure?

2. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"

3. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.

4. Who is the author of the book?

5. What transition stays within a scene or idea and requires more closure from the reader in order to find the transition meaningful?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could an artist lengthen a pause in the conversation between two characters?

2. Is a single image equivalent to a single instant in time?

3. How is the Egyptian painting referenced in the book considered a comic?

4. Why is "juxtaposed static images in deliberate sequence" not a thorough definition of comics?

5. How do people commit closure in electronic media such as a a film?

6. According to McCloud, everything that people experience in life can be separated into which two realms?

7. Why does the author introduce the Margritte painting, "The Treachery of Images"?

8. How is the screenfold of 8-Deer "Tiger's Claw" considered a comic?

9. What are different ways to portray motion within panels?

10. What is the difference between closure of electronic media and closure in comics?

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