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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other example of time measurement does Eisner mention?
(a) Symmetric space.
(b) Musical notation.
(c) Diameter.
(d) Seconds.

2. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?
(a) Timing.
(b) Blocking.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Character development.

3. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?
(a) Snow.
(b) Wind.
(c) Rain.
(d) Lightning.

4. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?
(a) Paneling.
(b) Style.
(c) Illusion.
(d) Timing.

5. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?
(a) Roman friezes.
(b) Gnostic illustrations.
(c) Weekly comic strips.
(d) Daily comic strips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has primacy over text in comics?

2. What can the frame's shape or absence convey?

3. What are these artists trying to arrange?

4. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?

5. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?

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