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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are these artists trying to arrange?
(a) Complex thoughts, sounds, actions, and ideas.
(b) Simple questions.
(c) Power and wealth.
(d) Neural synapses.

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

3. How do comics form a language?
(a) By spontaneity.
(b) Through morphemes.
(c) Through content.
(d) By repetitiveness.

4. What long Spirit story does Eisner analyze in Chapter 3?
(a) Popfly.
(b) Strikeout.
(c) Foul Play.
(d) Up and Out.

5. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?
(a) Ink.
(b) Phrasal verbs.
(c) Tone.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?

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

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

4. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?

5. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

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