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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) Sing.
(b) Be invincible.
(c) Be invisible.
(d) Fly.

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

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

4. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?
(a) Riverbrook.
(b) Madison Avenue.
(c) Mount Sinai.
(d) The Bronx.

5. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?
(a) Syntactic process.
(b) Simple principles.
(c) Deeper meanings and complexities.
(d) Heartfelt communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?

2. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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