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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(b) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.
(c) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.
(d) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.

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

3. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?
(a) The Ten Commandments.
(b) The Five Ideals.
(c) The One Principle.
(d) The Unity of the Mind.

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

5. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?
(a) Its size.
(b) Its shape.
(c) Its weight.
(d) Its feeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?

2. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

3. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?

4. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

5. Does this book suggest the structures of illustration and of prose are similar?

(see the answer key)

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