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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?
(a) Beauty, rhythm, and individuality.
(b) Progression, change, style.
(c) Power, individuality, transcendence.
(d) Beauty, power, rhythm.

2. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The fluid lines of the image.
(b) The proximity of the action.
(c) The strained context of the image.
(d) The speed of the action.

3. How did comics begin?
(a) In printmaking.
(b) As one-page illustrations.
(c) As short features.
(d) In MS Paint.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did comics evolve into?

2. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?

3. What are these artists trying to arrange?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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