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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Radiowaves.
(d) Minutes.

2. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?
(a) Heartfelt communication.
(b) Deeper meanings and complexities.
(c) Syntactic process.
(d) Simple principles.

3. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?
(a) A pair of ears.
(b) A grammar.
(c) A pen and ink.
(d) A message.

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

5. What must be broken down into segments when using a full-page frame?
(a) Scenes and pages.
(b) Meter and rhythm.
(c) Plot and action.
(d) Words.

6. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?
(a) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 1.
(b) Junior Yogi, Part 2.
(c) George and the Yogi.
(d) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 2.

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

8. When does a pause inevitably occur while reading?
(a) While the reader/viewer moves from panel to panel.
(b) When the reader/viewer sees the first panel.
(c) When the reader/viewer turns the page.
(d) When the reader/viewer reads the second to last panel.

9. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.
(b) The modern form of sequential art.
(c) Linear art.
(d) Phoenician watercolors.

10. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?
(a) They become concrete.
(b) They function verbally.
(c) They are abstracted.
(d) They are reduced.

11. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?
(a) Dada.
(b) Scope.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Friezes.

12. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The proximity of the action.
(b) The speed of the action.
(c) The fluid lines of the image.
(d) The strained context of the image.

13. What do different renderings require from the viewer?
(a) Good eyesight.
(b) Time.
(c) Inference and trained memorization.
(d) Lesser or greater memory and deduction.

14. What specific content does Chapter 4 discuss?
(a) Didactic dictation.
(b) Broad ideas.
(c) Significant authors.
(d) Technical specifics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?

2. What is another word for panels?

3. What conventions do comics rely on?

4. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?

5. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

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