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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does calligraphy relate to sound?
(a) It is analogous.
(b) It is symmetrical.
(c) It is progressive.
(d) It is anthropomorphic.

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

5. How do you describe the kind of activity that bridges gaps in the action of the comic?
(a) Visceral.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Heartfelt.
(d) Spatial.

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

7. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?
(a) Scripts.
(b) Postcards.
(c) Quills.
(d) Twine.

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

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

10. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?
(a) Sound and thought.
(b) Words and imagery.
(c) Music and imagery.
(d) Words and movement.

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

12. How can a panel be diagrammed?
(a) Like a song lyric.
(b) Like a sentence.
(c) Like a railroad track.
(d) Like a word.

13. What kind of vision is related to freezing a moment in an uninterrupted flow of action?
(a) Dilated.
(b) Circumspect.
(c) Peripheral.
(d) Spatial.

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

15. What can the frame's shape or absence convey?
(a) The progression of emotion.
(b) The sound and emotion of the action.
(c) The profession of the artist.
(d) Character development.

Short Answer Questions

1. What specific content does Chapter 4 discuss?

2. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

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

4. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?

5. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?

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