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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?
(a) Rain.
(b) Snow.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Wind.

3. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?
(a) A fine sense of smell.
(b) Auditory and verbal interpretive skills.
(c) Tactile sense and dexterity.
(d) Visual and verbal interpretive skills.

4. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?
(a) Amber.
(b) Blood.
(c) Resin.
(d) Water.

5. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) Linear art.
(b) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.
(c) Phoenician watercolors.
(d) The modern form of sequential art.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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