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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do balloons function for sound in comics?
(a) They develop voice.
(b) They play the sound.
(c) They narrate tone.
(d) They make sound visible.

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

4. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?
(a) Radiation.
(b) Minutes.
(c) Radiowaves.
(d) Morse code.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?

2. In comics, what produces immediate results?

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

4. Stories can be told through what alone?

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

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