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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The earliest use of balloons was in what culture?
(a) The Mayan culture.
(b) The Aztec culture.
(c) The Slavic culture.
(d) The Incan culture.

2. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.
(b) By breaking the left-to-right convention.
(c) By breaking the right-to-left convention.
(d) By using the spiral principle.

3. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?
(a) Changes in inflection and sound levels in speech.
(b) Changes in pressure of vocal strings and ink.
(c) Changes in heart palpitations.
(d) Changes in vocal patterns.

4. How does calligraphy relate to sound?
(a) It is anthropomorphic.
(b) It is progressive.
(c) It is symmetrical.
(d) It is analogous.

5. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) 17th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 16th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other example of time measurement does Eisner mention?

2. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?

3. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?

4. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?

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

(see the answer key)

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