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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?
(a) Exaggerated gesture.
(b) Simple, concise images.
(c) Clear blocking.
(d) Heavy marking.

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

3. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?
(a) Belief.
(b) Extra sophistication.
(c) Technical practice.
(d) Little knowledge.

4. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) To explain their analysis.
(b) To format their pieces.
(c) To express their ideas
(d) To formulate their understanding.

5. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?
(a) The Ten Commandments.
(b) The Five Ideals.
(c) The One Principle.
(d) The Unity of the Mind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?

3. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?

4. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

5. How did comics begin?

(see the answer key)

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