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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is determined by how much space is available and what technology is to be used to reproduce it?
(a) Number of pages.
(b) Size and number of ink sets.
(c) Size and number of pages and colors.
(d) Size of pens and number of colors.

2. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?
(a) So communication can occur.
(b) So the artist can get paid.
(c) So the panels are read correctly.
(d) So the reader understands the entirety of the piece.

3. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?
(a) Panoramic views.
(b) Narrow channels.
(c) Heavy lines.
(d) Close-ups.

4. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?
(a) The artist's style.
(b) The artist's business.
(c) The artist's memory.
(d) The artist's skill.

5. What conventions do comics rely on?
(a) Natural conventions.
(b) Symbolic conventions.
(c) Emotional conventions.
(d) Reading conventions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?

2. Why is the basic panel layout normally strictly prescribed?

3. What kind of movements flow together over short periods?

4. What must artists know about the force of gravity?

5. What are these artists trying to arrange?

(see the answer key)

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