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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.
(b) Comics must function like sentences.
(c) The comic will stop making sense.
(d) The reader will stop reading.

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

5. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Trapezoids.
(c) Boxes.
(d) Triangles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?

2. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

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

4. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?

5. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?

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