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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?
(a) Slavic.
(b) Atlantic.
(c) Asian.
(d) Georgian.

2. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?
(a) They become concrete.
(b) They function verbally.
(c) They are reduced.
(d) They are abstracted.

3. How do balloons function for speech in comics?
(a) They frame the speech.
(b) They enhance the speech.
(c) They relate content.
(d) They focus on the visuals.

4. How many panels must an action sometimes be broken into to clarify the action?
(a) Several.
(b) Many.
(c) All.
(d) None.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for panels?

2. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?

3. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?

4. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

5. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

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