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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?
(a) A fine sense of smell.
(b) Auditory and verbal interpretive skills.
(c) Visual and verbal interpretive skills.
(d) Tactile sense and dexterity.

4. What kind of movements are "frozen" in time?
(a) Postures.
(b) Gestures.
(c) Waves.
(d) Instinctive.

5. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?
(a) Transmutation.
(b) Symbolification.
(c) Codification.
(d) Chrysallis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?

2. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

3. Why is the face the most important part of the body in comics?

4. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?

5. What are these artists trying to arrange?

(see the answer key)

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