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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can a panel be diagrammed?
(a) Like a song lyric.
(b) Like a sentence.
(c) Like a railroad track.
(d) Like a word.

2. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?
(a) The text is lettered in a similar style.
(b) The text is lettered in teardrops.
(c) The text is broken into many balloons.
(d) The text is fragmented across the panel.

3. When are the outlines determined by the artist?
(a) After the rest of the comic is drawn.
(b) After the artist decides on the action.
(c) Before the artist decides on the action.
(d) While the artist draws the page.

4. What does the storyteller want to cause the reader to do?
(a) To become extremist.
(b) To become isolated.
(c) To become involved.
(d) To become self-aware.

5. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?
(a) Humans wouldn't kill animals.
(b) Humans would love animals.
(c) Humans would kill more.
(d) Humans would kill fewer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eisner say images can trigger?

3. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

4. What did comics evolve into?

5. What is a modern attempt at codifying the wide range of postures and the emotions they reflect

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