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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?
(a) Narrowpanels.
(b) Narrowplanes.
(c) Broadsheets.
(d) Broadpages.

2. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?
(a) So communication can occur.
(b) So the reader understands the entirety of the piece.
(c) So the panels are read correctly.
(d) So the artist can get paid.

3. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?
(a) Timing.
(b) Character development.
(c) Blocking.
(d) Spacing.

4. What things are not described but added when words are coupled with images?
(a) Sound, dialogue, connections.
(b) Connections, webs, tangles.
(c) Weight, height, style.
(d) Sound, monologues, vocal patterns.

5. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?
(a) They should spend time apart.
(b) They should be obsessed.
(c) They should be radically determined.
(d) They should be one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can often be left out in subsequent panels after the first page of a story?

2. What do most humans understand the face as?

3. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?

4. What is determined by how much space is available and what technology is to be used to reproduce it?

5. What long Spirit story does Eisner analyze in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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