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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Does this book suggest the structures of illustration and of prose are similar?
(a) Yes.
(b) They are profoundly different.
(c) The article does not mention any similarity.
(d) The article says illustration has no structure.

5. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?
(a) Heart and mind.
(b) Mentality and personality.
(c) Thought and size.
(d) Character and emotion.

6. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?
(a) Pull him or her in.
(b) Show the audience a better picture.
(c) Keep him or her at bay.
(d) Explain the storyline more clearly.

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

8. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?
(a) Partly in Yiddish.
(b) Partly in Celtic runes.
(c) Partly in astrological charts.
(d) Partly in Hebraic style.

9. What kind of things does the storyteller use to tell a story in comics?
(a) Light and dark.
(b) Baggage and ideas.
(c) Depth and perception.
(d) Balloons and symbols.

10. What specific content does Chapter 4 discuss?
(a) Significant authors.
(b) Broad ideas.
(c) Didactic dictation.
(d) Technical specifics.

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

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

13. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Method.
(b) Identity.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Construct.

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

15. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?

2. In comics, what produces immediate results?

3. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?

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

5. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?

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