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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What conventions do comics rely on?
(a) Emotional conventions.
(b) Reading conventions.
(c) Symbolic conventions.
(d) Natural conventions.

2. Through what must the artist seize attention and dictate the sequence?
(a) The sequence.
(b) The narrative.
(c) The pages.
(d) The structural thought.

3. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?
(a) Resin.
(b) Blood.
(c) Amber.
(d) Water.

4. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?
(a) They are abstracted.
(b) They become concrete.
(c) They are reduced.
(d) They function verbally.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do comics form a language?

2. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?

3. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?

4. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?

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

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