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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?
(a) Daily comic strips.
(b) Gnostic illustrations.
(c) Roman friezes.
(d) Weekly comic strips.

2. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?
(a) Interfixed.
(b) Intersected.
(c) Intertwined.
(d) Interlocked.

3. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?
(a) Changes in vocal patterns.
(b) Changes in pressure of vocal strings and ink.
(c) Changes in heart palpitations.
(d) Changes in inflection and sound levels in speech.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

2. What dominates the reader's initial response?

3. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?

4. How big is the simplified script when determining an agreement between artist and writer?

5. What are gestures "almost idiomatic" to?

(see the answer key)

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