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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The strained context of the image.
(b) The proximity of the action.
(c) The speed of the action.
(d) The fluid lines of the image.

2. Does this book suggest the structures of illustration and of prose are similar?
(a) Yes.
(b) The article says illustration has no structure.
(c) They are profoundly different.
(d) The article does not mention any similarity.

3. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?
(a) Be invincible.
(b) Fly.
(c) Sing.
(d) Be invisible.

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

5. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) The modern form of sequential art.
(b) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.
(c) Phoenician watercolors.
(d) Linear art.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?

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

3. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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