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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Construct.
(b) Method.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Identity.

2. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?
(a) Roots.
(b) Calligraphy.
(c) Punctuation.
(d) Morphemes.

3. Stories can be told through what alone?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Signatures.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Focal points.

4. How can a panel be diagrammed?
(a) Like a railroad track.
(b) Like a song lyric.
(c) Like a sentence.
(d) Like a word.

5. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?
(a) Beauty, rhythm, and individuality.
(b) Power, individuality, transcendence.
(c) Progression, change, style.
(d) Beauty, power, rhythm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?

2. The sequential artist and the reader must share what kind of experience?

3. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?

4. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

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

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