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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Stories can be told through what alone?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Signatures.
(d) Focal points.

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

4. 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) The reader will stop reading.
(c) Comics must function like sentences.
(d) The comic will stop making sense.

5. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?
(a) The text is fragmented across the panel.
(b) The text is lettered in teardrops.
(c) The text is lettered in a similar style.
(d) The text is broken into many balloons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?

2. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?

3. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?

4. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?

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

(see the answer key)

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