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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In comics, what produces immediate results?
(a) Time.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Speech.
(d) Science.

2. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?
(a) Scripts.
(b) Postcards.
(c) Twine.
(d) Quills.

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

4. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Identity.
(b) Construct.
(c) Method.
(d) Symbol.

5. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?
(a) Intersected.
(b) Intertwined.
(c) Interfixed.
(d) Interlocked.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do balloons function for sound in comics?

3. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?

4. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?

5. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?

(see the answer key)

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