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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) Spirit.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Signatures.
(d) Focal points.

2. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By breaking the right-to-left convention.
(b) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.
(c) By using the spiral principle.
(d) By breaking the left-to-right convention.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?

2. When speed lines indicate motion they are part of what language?

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

4. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

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

(see the answer key)

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