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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stories can be told through what alone?
(a) Focal points.
(b) Signatures.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Imagery.

2. How do comics form a language?
(a) Through content.
(b) By spontaneity.
(c) By repetitiveness.
(d) Through morphemes.

3. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1956.

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

5. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?
(a) Elf.
(b) Dwarf.
(c) Ghoul.
(d) Horse of the Apocalypse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?

3. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?

4. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

5. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

(see the answer key)

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