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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Eisner use as an example to stress the value and dignity of work and whet interest and curiosity?
(a) Career booklets.
(b) Bookends.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Manuscripts.

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

4. When are the outlines determined by the artist?
(a) After the rest of the comic is drawn.
(b) While the artist draws the page.
(c) Before the artist decides on the action.
(d) After the artist decides on the action.

5. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(b) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.
(c) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.
(d) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?

2. In what person does Eisner illustrate and recast Hamlet?

3. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?

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

5. When writing words, authors do what to the reader's imagination?

(see the answer key)

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