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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nature of lettering reflect about the artist?
(a) The artist's race.
(b) The artist's weight.
(c) The artist's soul.
(d) The artist's style.

2. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?
(a) Auditory and verbal interpretive skills.
(b) Visual and verbal interpretive skills.
(c) Tactile sense and dexterity.
(d) A fine sense of smell.

3. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?
(a) Beauty, rhythm, and individuality.
(b) Progression, change, style.
(c) Power, individuality, transcendence.
(d) Beauty, power, rhythm.

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

5. How do balloons function for speech in comics?
(a) They frame the speech.
(b) They enhance the speech.
(c) They relate content.
(d) They focus on the visuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must be broken down into segments when using a full-page frame?

2. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?

3. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?

4. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?

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

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