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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can the frame's shape or absence convey?
(a) Character development.
(b) The progression of emotion.
(c) The sound and emotion of the action.
(d) The profession of the artist.

2. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?
(a) So the panels are read correctly.
(b) So communication can occur.
(c) So the reader understands the entirety of the piece.
(d) So the artist can get paid.

3. What is the most useful and most used word in comics?
(a) Consequently.
(b) Now.
(c) During.
(d) Meanwhile.

4. Why is the basic panel layout normally strictly prescribed?
(a) Space constraints.
(b) Timelines.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Due dates.

5. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Boxes.
(b) Trapezoids.
(c) Bubbles.
(d) Triangles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is often predetermined by the nature of the story?

2. Through what must the artist seize attention and dictate the sequence?

3. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?

4. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?

5. What must be broken down into segments when using a full-page frame?

(see the answer key)

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