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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did comics evolve into?
(a) Diatomes.
(b) Storybooks.
(c) Graphic novels.
(d) Comic newspapers.

2. What kind of stories have dominated the field of comics because of the limitations of the medium?
(a) Life-changing stories.
(b) Simple, obvious stories.
(c) Didactic moral stories.
(d) Complex, intriguing stories.

3. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) To formulate their understanding.
(b) To explain their analysis.
(c) To express their ideas
(d) To format their pieces.

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

5. In what time frame did comics assume the typical reader was a "10-year old from Iowa"?
(a) 1940s to early 1960s.
(b) Early 1940s to late 1970s.
(c) 1950s to 1960s.
(d) Early 1930s to late 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

2. What was the name of Eisner's 1981 attempt to illustrate Shakespeare's famous soliloquy of Hamlet?

3. How can instructional comics be divided?

4. What is the title of Chapter 6?

5. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?

(see the answer key)

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