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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do different renderings require from the viewer?
(a) Inference and trained memorization.
(b) Lesser or greater memory and deduction.
(c) Good eyesight.
(d) Time.

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

3. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?
(a) Narrowplanes.
(b) Broadpages.
(c) Broadsheets.
(d) Narrowpanels.

4. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Scope.
(c) Friezes.
(d) Dada.

5. What can be altered to add time lapse without altering rhythm?
(a) Thought process.
(b) Anger.
(c) Focal energy.
(d) Perspective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did comics evolve into?

2. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?

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

4. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?

5. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?

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