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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 panels are read correctly.
(b) So the artist can get paid.
(c) So communication can occur.
(d) So the reader understands the entirety of the piece.

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

3. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?
(a) Codification.
(b) Transmutation.
(c) Chrysallis.
(d) Symbolification.

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

5. What did comics evolve into?
(a) Comic newspapers.
(b) Graphic novels.
(c) Diatomes.
(d) Storybooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?

2. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

3. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?

4. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?

5. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?

(see the answer key)

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