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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?
(a) The early literary diet.
(b) Late puberty.
(c) The philosophical years.
(d) The toddler phase.

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

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

9. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) 15th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 16th.

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

11. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?
(a) Interlocked.
(b) Intersected.
(c) Intertwined.
(d) Interfixed.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The sequential artist and the reader must share what kind of experience?

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

3. The earliest use of balloons was in what culture?

4. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?

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

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