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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) Spirit.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Focal points.
(d) Signatures.

2. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The speed of the action.
(b) The fluid lines of the image.
(c) The strained context of the image.
(d) The proximity of the action.

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

4. What dominates the reader's initial response?
(a) Text.
(b) Hardbound novels.
(c) Texture.
(d) Artwork.

5. What is often predetermined by the nature of the story?
(a) Humorous or realistic style.
(b) Graphic or illustrative style.
(c) Linear or algebraic style.
(d) Surrealist or Dada style.

Short Answer Questions

1. What typically develops before graphic development?

2. How do you describe the kind of activity that bridges gaps in the action of the comic?

3. What is the intermediate mock up that allows editor, writer, and artist to review the project called in comics?

4. What kind of stories have dominated the field of comics because of the limitations of the medium?

5. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?

(see the answer key)

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