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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?
(a) Scripts.
(b) Quills.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Twine.

2. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?
(a) A pair of ears.
(b) A message.
(c) A pen and ink.
(d) A grammar.

3. When speed lines indicate motion they are part of what language?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Visual.
(c) Syntactic.
(d) Mental.

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

5. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?
(a) Partly in Hebraic style.
(b) Partly in Yiddish.
(c) Partly in Celtic runes.
(d) Partly in astrological charts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?

3. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

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

5. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

(see the answer key)

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