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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) The comic will stop making sense.
(b) The reader will stop reading.
(c) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.
(d) Comics must function like sentences.

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

3. What does the first page of a story functions as?
(a) The conclusion.
(b) The index.
(c) The introduction.
(d) The prognosis.

4. Through what must the artist seize attention and dictate the sequence?
(a) The pages.
(b) The structural thought.
(c) The sequence.
(d) The narrative.

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

6. What does the nature of lettering reflect about the artist?
(a) The artist's weight.
(b) The artist's style.
(c) The artist's race.
(d) The artist's soul.

7. Why is time harder to measure in comics?
(a) Because it is more illusory.
(b) Because it is more circular.
(c) Because it is more linear.
(d) Because it is more visible.

8. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?
(a) Blood.
(b) Resin.
(c) Amber.
(d) Water.

9. The sequential artist and the reader must share what kind of experience?
(a) Skill set experience.
(b) Monetary trade.
(c) Life experience.
(d) Oral communication.

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

11. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?
(a) The text is fragmented across the panel.
(b) The text is broken into many balloons.
(c) The text is lettered in a similar style.
(d) The text is lettered in teardrops.

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

13. Stories can be told through what alone?
(a) Signatures.
(b) Focal points.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Spirit.

14. What does the storyteller want to cause the reader to do?
(a) To become isolated.
(b) To become self-aware.
(c) To become extremist.
(d) To become involved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?

2. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?

3. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?

4. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

5. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?

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