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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?
(a) So the artist can get paid.
(b) So the reader understands the entirety of the piece.
(c) So communication can occur.
(d) So the panels are read correctly.

2. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?
(a) Amber.
(b) Water.
(c) Resin.
(d) Blood.

3. How does calligraphy relate to sound?
(a) It is anthropomorphic.
(b) It is symmetrical.
(c) It is analogous.
(d) It is progressive.

4. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Religious.
(d) Geometric.

5. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?
(a) Visual and verbal interpretive skills.
(b) Tactile sense and dexterity.
(c) A fine sense of smell.
(d) Auditory and verbal interpretive skills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are these artists trying to arrange?

2. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?

3. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?

4. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?

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

(see the answer key)

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