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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can instructional comics be divided?
(a) Attitudinal and longitudinal.
(b) Technical and latitudinal.
(c) Technical and attitudinal.
(d) Technical and inspirational.

2. What is the face sometimes treated as?
(a) A blight.
(b) A ligament.
(c) An appendage.
(d) A facet.

3. What kind of things does the storyteller use to tell a story in comics?
(a) Balloons and symbols.
(b) Light and dark.
(c) Baggage and ideas.
(d) Depth and perception.

4. In theory, what does the reader/viewer already know how to understand?
(a) Sequential art.
(b) Philosophical principles.
(c) Parallel dimensions.
(d) Linear algebra.

5. What other example of time measurement does Eisner mention?
(a) Musical notation.
(b) Seconds.
(c) Diameter.
(d) Symmetric space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can give insight into a character's lifestyle and allow sociological observations?

2. What tendency of the eye is an obstacle in comics?

3. What kind of movements are "frozen" in time?

4. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?

5. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?

(see the answer key)

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