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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?
(a) Its shape.
(b) Its weight.
(c) Its feeling.
(d) Its size.

3. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?
(a) Punctuation.
(b) Roots.
(c) Calligraphy.
(d) Morphemes.

4. How did comics begin?
(a) In printmaking.
(b) In MS Paint.
(c) As one-page illustrations.
(d) As short features.

5. Why does Eisner analyze this particular Spirit story in Chapter 3?
(a) To demonstrate the alteration of perspective.
(b) To show how time is realized through sequence.
(c) To demonstrate the nature of space and width.
(d) To show how images and rhythm are disparate.

6. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Narrative.
(b) Sequence.
(c) Elements.
(d) Framing.

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

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

9. What did comics evolve into?
(a) Diatomes.
(b) Storybooks.
(c) Comic newspapers.
(d) Graphic novels.

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

11. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?
(a) View the action as presented.
(b) Press rewind and play buttons.
(c) Charge per viewing.
(d) Sit quietly.

12. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?
(a) The panel's.
(b) Character's.
(c) Creator's.
(d) Reader/viewer's.

13. What are these artists trying to arrange?
(a) Simple questions.
(b) Neural synapses.
(c) Power and wealth.
(d) Complex thoughts, sounds, actions, and ideas.

14. How do comics form a language?
(a) Through morphemes.
(b) By spontaneity.
(c) By repetitiveness.
(d) Through content.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?

3. What specific content does Chapter 4 discuss?

4. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?

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

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