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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tendency of the eye is an obstacle in comics?
(a) For the eye to blink.
(b) For the eye to cry.
(c) For the eye to dilate.
(d) For the eye to wander.

2. What do different renderings require from the viewer?
(a) Time.
(b) Lesser or greater memory and deduction.
(c) Inference and trained memorization.
(d) Good eyesight.

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

4. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?
(a) Narrowpanels.
(b) Narrowplanes.
(c) Broadsheets.
(d) Broadpages.

5. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?
(a) John.
(b) Mariford Rubens.
(c) Cranfranz Qwayle.
(d) Carboy T. Gretch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things limit the artist's choice of outline?

2. What kind of vision is related to freezing a moment in an uninterrupted flow of action?

3. What must be followed completely by the artist and writer?

4. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?

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

(see the answer key)

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