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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) The reader will stop reading.
(b) Comics must function like sentences.
(c) The comic will stop making sense.
(d) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.

2. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?
(a) Sing.
(b) Be invincible.
(c) Be invisible.
(d) Fly.

3. What do people learn to measure distance by?
(a) Sight and Sound.
(b) Nature and the Heavens.
(c) Optics and Illusion.
(d) Circumference and Diameter.

4. How do balloons function for sound in comics?
(a) They play the sound.
(b) They develop voice.
(c) They make sound visible.
(d) They narrate tone.

5. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Madison Avenue.
(c) Mount Sinai.
(d) Riverbrook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?

2. What kind of things does the storyteller use to tell a story in comics?

3. What long Spirit story does Eisner analyze in Chapter 3?

4. How can a panel be diagrammed?

5. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

(see the answer key)

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