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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?
(a) Pull him or her in.
(b) Explain the storyline more clearly.
(c) Keep him or her at bay.
(d) Show the audience a better picture.

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

3. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By using the spiral principle.
(b) By breaking the right-to-left convention.
(c) By breaking the left-to-right convention.
(d) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.

4. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?
(a) Power, individuality, transcendence.
(b) Beauty, power, rhythm.
(c) Progression, change, style.
(d) Beauty, rhythm, and individuality.

5. Does this book suggest the structures of illustration and of prose are similar?
(a) They are profoundly different.
(b) Yes.
(c) The article does not mention any similarity.
(d) The article says illustration has no structure.

6. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?
(a) The One Principle.
(b) The Unity of the Mind.
(c) The Five Ideals.
(d) The Ten Commandments.

7. What characteristics of panels contribute to the sequence of time?
(a) The depth and breadth of panels.
(b) The number and size of panels.
(c) The matter and width of panels.
(d) The speed and radius of panels.

8. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1956.

9. What two things limit the artist's choice of outline?
(a) The narrative requirement and constrictions on page dimensions.
(b) The number of pens and pencils the artist owns.
(c) The scope and vision of the work.
(d) The sequential drive and linear focus of the page.

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

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

12. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?
(a) Style.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Paneling.
(d) Timing.

13. How do balloons function for sound in comics?
(a) They play the sound.
(b) They narrate tone.
(c) They develop voice.
(d) They make sound visible.

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

15. What can be altered to add time lapse without altering rhythm?
(a) Perspective.
(b) Thought process.
(c) Focal energy.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can a panel be diagrammed?

2. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?

3. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

4. What novelty can suggest dimension and involve the reader/viewer better than a regular container?

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

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