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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another word for panels?
(a) Boxes.
(b) Hearts.
(c) Bows.
(d) Bubbles.

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

3. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?
(a) Changes in heart palpitations.
(b) Changes in vocal patterns.
(c) Changes in pressure of vocal strings and ink.
(d) Changes in inflection and sound levels in speech.

4. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) The comic will stop making sense.
(b) The reader will stop reading.
(c) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.
(d) Comics must function like sentences.

5. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?
(a) The One Principle.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) The Five Ideals.
(d) The Unity of the Mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?

2. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

3. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

4. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?

5. When speed lines indicate motion they are part of what language?

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