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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of vision is related to freezing a moment in an uninterrupted flow of action?
(a) Peripheral.
(b) Dilated.
(c) Spatial.
(d) Circumspect.

2. What can the frame's shape or absence convey?
(a) Character development.
(b) The sound and emotion of the action.
(c) The progression of emotion.
(d) The profession of the artist.

3. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?
(a) Charge per viewing.
(b) View the action as presented.
(c) Press rewind and play buttons.
(d) Sit quietly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did comics evolve into?

2. What are these artists trying to arrange?

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

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

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

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