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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When are the outlines determined by the artist?
(a) After the rest of the comic is drawn.
(b) While the artist draws the page.
(c) Before the artist decides on the action.
(d) After the artist decides on the action.

3. The earliest use of balloons was in what culture?
(a) The Aztec culture.
(b) The Mayan culture.
(c) The Slavic culture.
(d) The Incan culture.

4. What do comics largely emulate?
(a) Angelic visions.
(b) Surrealist perspectives.
(c) Real experience.
(d) Visual aesthetics.

5. In what vocabulary are body and gestures and postures stored?
(a) Auditory vocabulary.
(b) Non-verbal vocabulary.
(c) Morphological vocabulary.
(d) Syntactic vocabulary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?

2. In what person does Eisner illustrate and recast Hamlet?

3. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?

4. When does a pause inevitably occur while reading?

5. What is the title of Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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