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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Friezes.
(c) Scope.
(d) Dada.

3. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?
(a) Partly in astrological charts.
(b) Partly in Yiddish.
(c) Partly in Hebraic style.
(d) Partly in Celtic runes.

4. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Paneling.
(c) Timing.
(d) Style.

5. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?
(a) Snow.
(b) Rain.
(c) Wind.
(d) Lightning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must control the comics project start to finish?

2. What approach predominates because comics mix letters and images?

3. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?

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

5. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?

(see the answer key)

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