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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does a pause inevitably occur while reading?
(a) While the reader/viewer moves from panel to panel.
(b) When the reader/viewer turns the page.
(c) When the reader/viewer reads the second to last panel.
(d) When the reader/viewer sees the first panel.

2. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?
(a) Water.
(b) Blood.
(c) Resin.
(d) Amber.

3. What can often be left out in subsequent panels after the first page of a story?
(a) The setting.
(b) The characters.
(c) The text.
(d) The panels.

4. What kind of judgments do people make about faces?
(a) Only inconsequential judgments.
(b) Important daily judgments.
(c) Half-hearted judgments.
(d) No judgments.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?

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

3. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

4. What conventions do comics rely on?

5. The earliest use of balloons was in what culture?

(see the answer key)

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