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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do comics form a language?
(a) By repetitiveness.
(b) Through content.
(c) By spontaneity.
(d) Through morphemes.

2. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?
(a) Narrowplanes.
(b) Broadpages.
(c) Narrowpanels.
(d) Broadsheets.

3. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?
(a) They are reduced.
(b) They function verbally.
(c) They become concrete.
(d) They are abstracted.

4. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?
(a) Narrow channels.
(b) Close-ups.
(c) Heavy lines.
(d) Panoramic views.

5. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?
(a) Georgian.
(b) Atlantic.
(c) Slavic.
(d) Asian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stories can be told through what alone?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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