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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?
(a) They should be obsessed.
(b) They should be one.
(c) They should be radically determined.
(d) They should spend time apart.

2. What kinds of tasks are by nature, sequential?
(a) Chores and language.
(b) Guidelines and perspective.
(c) Procedures and processes.
(d) Thoughts and actions.

3. What two types of applications is sequential art normally divided into?
(a) Instruction and entertainment.
(b) Moralism and fanaticism.
(c) Existentialism and entertainment.
(d) Experimentalism and nihilism.

4. When writing words, authors do what to the reader's imagination?
(a) Suggest.
(b) Hint.
(c) Suspect.
(d) Direct.

5. Why is the basic panel layout normally strictly prescribed?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Timelines.
(c) Due dates.
(d) Space constraints.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the audience for early forms of sequential art?

2. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?

3. Why is time harder to measure in comics?

4. What do most humans understand the face as?

5. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?

(see the answer key)

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