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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What approach predominates because comics mix letters and images?
(a) The tactile.
(b) The lingual.
(c) The visual.
(d) The sensory.

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

3. What dominates the reader's initial response?
(a) Text.
(b) Hardbound novels.
(c) Artwork.
(d) Texture.

4. What is usually the key to a gesture's meaning?
(a) The final sketch.
(b) The final panel.
(c) The final position.
(d) The final bubble.

5. What must convey both time and emotion, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Emotion and Instinct.
(b) Time and travel.
(c) Time and emotion.
(d) Thought and emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of tasks are by nature, sequential?

2. What do people learn to measure distance by?

3. What is a modern attempt at codifying the wide range of postures and the emotions they reflect

4. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?

5. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?

(see the answer key)

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