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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 speed of the action.
(d) The strained context of the image.

2. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?
(a) Roman friezes.
(b) Daily comic strips.
(c) Weekly comic strips.
(d) Gnostic illustrations.

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

4. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) To format their pieces.
(b) To formulate their understanding.
(c) To explain their analysis.
(d) To express their ideas

5. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.
(b) By breaking the left-to-right convention.
(c) By using the spiral principle.
(d) By breaking the right-to-left convention.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?

2. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?

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

4. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?

5. How can a panel be diagrammed?

(see the answer key)

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