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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?
(a) A pen and ink.
(b) A message.
(c) A grammar.
(d) A pair of ears.

2. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.
(b) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.
(c) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(d) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.

3. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?
(a) Character and emotion.
(b) Mentality and personality.
(c) Heart and mind.
(d) Thought and size.

4. Why does Eisner analyze this particular Spirit story in Chapter 3?
(a) To demonstrate the nature of space and width.
(b) To show how images and rhythm are disparate.
(c) To show how time is realized through sequence.
(d) To demonstrate the alteration of perspective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?

2. What kind of stories have dominated the field of comics because of the limitations of the medium?

3. What kind of movements are "frozen" in time?

4. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?

5. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

(see the answer key)

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