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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the nature of lettering reflect about the artist?
(a) The artist's soul.
(b) The artist's style.
(c) The artist's weight.
(d) The artist's race.

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

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

7. The earliest use of balloons was in what culture?
(a) The Mayan culture.
(b) The Aztec culture.
(c) The Slavic culture.
(d) The Incan culture.

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

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

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

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

13. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Triangles.
(c) Trapezoids.
(d) Boxes.

14. 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 blink.
(d) For the eye to cry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?

2. How do balloons function for sound in comics?

3. How do comics form a language?

4. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

5. What do people learn to measure distance by?

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