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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) Phoenician watercolors.
(b) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.
(c) The modern form of sequential art.
(d) Linear art.

3. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) 16th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 10th.

4. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?
(a) Fly.
(b) Be invisible.
(c) Be invincible.
(d) Sing.

5. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.
(b) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(c) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.
(d) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?

2. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?

3. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?

4. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?

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

(see the answer key)

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