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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do you describe the kind of activity that bridges gaps in the action of the comic?
(a) Spatial.
(b) Heartfelt.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Visceral.

2. When does a pause inevitably occur while reading?
(a) When the reader/viewer reads the second to last panel.
(b) When the reader/viewer turns the page.
(c) When the reader/viewer sees the first panel.
(d) While the reader/viewer moves from panel to panel.

3. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?
(a) Thought and size.
(b) Mentality and personality.
(c) Heart and mind.
(d) Character and emotion.

4. What do different renderings require from the viewer?
(a) Good eyesight.
(b) Lesser or greater memory and deduction.
(c) Time.
(d) Inference and trained memorization.

5. What must be broken down into segments when using a full-page frame?
(a) Plot and action.
(b) Meter and rhythm.
(c) Words.
(d) Scenes and pages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

2. How can a panel be diagrammed?

3. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?

4. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?

5. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

(see the answer key)

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