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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does a pause inevitably occur while reading?
(a) While the reader/viewer moves from panel to panel.
(b) When the reader/viewer turns the page.
(c) When the reader/viewer reads the second to last panel.
(d) When the reader/viewer sees the first panel.

2. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?
(a) Lightning.
(b) Rain.
(c) Snow.
(d) Wind.

3. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Trapezoids.
(d) Triangles.

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

5. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?
(a) Syntactic process.
(b) Heartfelt communication.
(c) Simple principles.
(d) Deeper meanings and complexities.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?

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

3. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?

4. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?

5. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?

(see the answer key)

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