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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?
(a) The text is broken into many balloons.
(b) The text is lettered in a similar style.
(c) The text is fragmented across the panel.
(d) The text is lettered in teardrops.

2. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?
(a) Lightning.
(b) Rain.
(c) Snow.
(d) Wind.

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

4. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) 17th.
(b) 16th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 15th.

5. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?
(a) Morphemes.
(b) Roots.
(c) Calligraphy.
(d) Punctuation.

Short Answer Questions

1. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?

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

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

4. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?

5. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

(see the answer key)

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