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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?
(a) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 2.
(b) George and the Yogi.
(c) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 1.
(d) Junior Yogi, Part 2.

2. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The fluid lines of the image.
(b) The strained context of the image.
(c) The speed of the action.
(d) The proximity of the action.

3. How does calligraphy relate to sound?
(a) It is progressive.
(b) It is anthropomorphic.
(c) It is analogous.
(d) It is symmetrical.

4. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) Linear art.
(b) Phoenician watercolors.
(c) The modern form of sequential art.
(d) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.

5. What sort of inner emotions can contortions of the face reveal?
(a) Fatigue, morals.
(b) Judgments, comfort, shoes.
(c) Weather, pain, leaps of faith.
(d) Pain, discomfort, comfort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?

2. What do people learn to measure distance by?

3. What is the absolute ratio of words to picture in comics?

4. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?

5. What must convey both time and emotion, according to Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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