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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By using the spiral principle.
(b) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.
(c) By breaking the right-to-left convention.
(d) By breaking the left-to-right convention.

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

4. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Friezes.
(c) Scope.
(d) Dada.

5. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Timing.
(c) Style.
(d) Paneling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the storyteller want to cause the reader to do?

2. The earliest use of balloons was in what culture?

3. What are these artists trying to arrange?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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