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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 used to move a reader or viewer through time?
(a) Colors.
(b) Lines.
(c) Panels.
(d) Texture.

2. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?
(a) Character and emotion.
(b) Thought and size.
(c) Heart and mind.
(d) Mentality and personality.

3. What can artists be tempted to do to detract from the storyline?
(a) Dazzle the eye.
(b) Seize the day.
(c) Sharpen the mind.
(d) Hone the craft.

4. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Trapezoids.
(c) Boxes.
(d) Triangles.

5. What is the intermediate mock up that allows editor, writer, and artist to review the project called in comics?
(a) Dummy.
(b) Layout.
(c) Story board.
(d) Mechanical.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many points does Eisner say an artist must understand about how objects work?

2. Who was the audience for early forms of sequential art?

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

4. Through what must the artist seize attention and dictate the sequence?

5. What kind of judgments do people make about faces?

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