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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?
(a) A grammar.
(b) A pen and ink.
(c) A message.
(d) A pair of ears.

6. 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.

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

8. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?
(a) Chrysallis.
(b) Codification.
(c) Transmutation.
(d) Symbolification.

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

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

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

12. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?
(a) Geometric.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Religious.

13. What tendency of the eye is an obstacle in comics?
(a) For the eye to wander.
(b) For the eye to dilate.
(c) For the eye to cry.
(d) For the eye to blink.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?

3. In comics, what produces immediate results?

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

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

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