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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?
(a) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 2.
(b) George and the Yogi.
(c) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 1.
(d) Junior Yogi, Part 2.

2. What field is writing for comics closely related to?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Playwriting.
(c) Theatrics.
(d) Linguistics.

3. What does Chapter 6 focus on?
(a) Character development.
(b) Writing.
(c) Art styles.
(d) Graphic imagery.

4. What does Eisner depict in three panels as an example of the inseparability of words and images?
(a) Two goldfish in a bowl.
(b) Five gold rings.
(c) Three golden retrievers.
(d) Five golden geese.

5. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?
(a) Explain the storyline more clearly.
(b) Keep him or her at bay.
(c) Show the audience a better picture.
(d) Pull him or her in.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?

3. What is the absolute ratio of words to picture in comics?

4. What is the most useful and most used word in comics?

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

(see the answer key)

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