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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people learn to measure distance by?
(a) Sight and Sound.
(b) Circumference and Diameter.
(c) Optics and Illusion.
(d) Nature and the Heavens.

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

3. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?
(a) Intertwined.
(b) Interlocked.
(c) Intersected.
(d) Interfixed.

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

5. What must artists realize about casual props like door hinges?
(a) They must be brown with rust.
(b) They must look surreal.
(c) They must move with gravity.
(d) They must be rendered accurately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other example of time measurement does Eisner mention?

2. What do comics largely emulate?

3. What is the face sometimes treated as?

4. What things are not described but added when words are coupled with images?

5. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?

(see the answer key)

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