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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Phrasal verbs.
(c) Ink.
(d) Tone.

2. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?
(a) With no visuals only text.
(b) With the text.
(c) As a blank space.
(d) As a pure visual without text.

3. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?
(a) The One Principle.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) The Unity of the Mind.
(d) The Five Ideals.

4. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.
(b) By breaking the right-to-left convention.
(c) By using the spiral principle.
(d) By breaking the left-to-right convention.

5. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Method.
(b) Identity.
(c) Construct.
(d) Symbol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Eisner's 1981 attempt to illustrate Shakespeare's famous soliloquy of Hamlet?

2. What should the artist be able to produce?

3. What do comics largely emulate?

4. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

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

(see the answer key)

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