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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of things does the storyteller use to tell a story in comics?
(a) Balloons and symbols.
(b) Light and dark.
(c) Depth and perception.
(d) Baggage and ideas.

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

3. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?
(a) Minutes.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Morse code.
(d) Radiowaves.

4. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?
(a) Snow.
(b) Rain.
(c) Wind.
(d) Lightning.

5. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?
(a) Panoramic views.
(b) Heavy lines.
(c) Close-ups.
(d) Narrow channels.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?

2. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?

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

4. Stories can be told through what alone?

5. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

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