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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stories can be told through what alone?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Signatures.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Focal points.

2. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?
(a) Transmutation.
(b) Chrysallis.
(c) Codification.
(d) Symbolification.

3. What approach predominates because comics mix letters and images?
(a) The sensory.
(b) The visual.
(c) The lingual.
(d) The tactile.

4. What novelty can suggest dimension and involve the reader/viewer better than a regular container?
(a) Using doorways or windows to frame a panel.
(b) Using 3D imagery.
(c) Using accompanying CDs to explain the pages.
(d) Using rulers to structure lines clearly.

5. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) To format their pieces.
(b) To express their ideas
(c) To formulate their understanding.
(d) To explain their analysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?

2. What is the title of Chapter 4?

3. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?

4. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?

5. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

(see the answer key)

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