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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is used to move a reader or viewer through time?
(a) Panels.
(b) Lines.
(c) Texture.
(d) Colors.

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

3. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?
(a) Extra sophistication.
(b) Belief.
(c) Technical practice.
(d) Little knowledge.

4. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) The modern form of sequential art.
(b) Linear art.
(c) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.
(d) Phoenician watercolors.

5. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?
(a) Nonsensical.
(b) Easy.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Difficult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?

2. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?

3. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?

4. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?

5. What can be altered to add time lapse without altering rhythm?

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