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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are these artists trying to arrange?
(a) Complex thoughts, sounds, actions, and ideas.
(b) Power and wealth.
(c) Simple questions.
(d) Neural synapses.

2. How did comics begin?
(a) In MS Paint.
(b) In printmaking.
(c) As one-page illustrations.
(d) As short features.

3. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The proximity of the action.
(b) The speed of the action.
(c) The strained context of the image.
(d) The fluid lines of the image.

4. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) The reader will stop reading.
(b) The comic will stop making sense.
(c) Comics must function like sentences.
(d) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?

2. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?

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

4. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

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

(see the answer key)

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