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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the absolute ratio of words to picture in comics?
(a) There is no absolute ratio.
(b) 3:1.
(c) 2:5.
(d) Twenty characters for three panels.

2. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Radiowaves.
(d) Minutes.

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

4. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) To express their ideas
(b) To explain their analysis.
(c) To format their pieces.
(d) To formulate their understanding.

5. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?
(a) Humans wouldn't kill animals.
(b) Humans would kill more.
(c) Humans would kill fewer.
(d) Humans would love animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

2. What can artists be tempted to do to detract from the storyline?

3. What is used to move a reader or viewer through time?

4. How do balloons function for speech in comics?

5. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

(see the answer key)

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