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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the storyteller want to cause the reader to do?
(a) To become isolated.
(b) To become involved.
(c) To become self-aware.
(d) To become extremist.

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

3. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?
(a) Partly in astrological charts.
(b) Partly in Yiddish.
(c) Partly in Hebraic style.
(d) Partly in Celtic runes.

4. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?
(a) Its feeling.
(b) Its shape.
(c) Its weight.
(d) Its size.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?

2. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

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

4. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?

5. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?

(see the answer key)

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