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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do balloons function for speech in comics?
(a) They relate content.
(b) They frame the speech.
(c) They enhance the speech.
(d) They focus on the visuals.

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

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

5. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Tone.
(c) Ink.
(d) Phrasal verbs.

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

7. What is another word for panels?
(a) Hearts.
(b) Bows.
(c) Bubbles.
(d) Boxes.

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

9. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?
(a) So communication can occur.
(b) So the panels are read correctly.
(c) So the artist can get paid.
(d) So the reader understands the entirety of the piece.

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

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

12. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?
(a) Gnostic illustrations.
(b) Daily comic strips.
(c) Roman friezes.
(d) Weekly comic strips.

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

14. What do people learn to measure distance by?
(a) Nature and the Heavens.
(b) Optics and Illusion.
(c) Sight and Sound.
(d) Circumference and Diameter.

15. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?
(a) Broadpages.
(b) Narrowplanes.
(c) Broadsheets.
(d) Narrowpanels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?

2. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?

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

4. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?

5. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?

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