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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?
(a) Elf.
(b) Horse of the Apocalypse.
(c) Dwarf.
(d) Ghoul.

2. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?
(a) George and the Yogi.
(b) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 1.
(c) Junior Yogi, Part 2.
(d) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 2.

3. What long Spirit story does Eisner analyze in Chapter 3?
(a) Popfly.
(b) Strikeout.
(c) Up and Out.
(d) Foul Play.

4. What does the storyteller want to cause the reader to do?
(a) To become extremist.
(b) To become isolated.
(c) To become self-aware.
(d) To become involved.

5. What other example of time measurement does Eisner mention?
(a) Diameter.
(b) Seconds.
(c) Musical notation.
(d) Symmetric space.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Eisner analyze this particular Spirit story in Chapter 3?

4. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?

5. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?

(see the answer key)

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