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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?
(a) Weekly comic strips.
(b) Roman friezes.
(c) Daily comic strips.
(d) Gnostic illustrations.

7. What two things limit the artist's choice of outline?
(a) The number of pens and pencils the artist owns.
(b) The narrative requirement and constrictions on page dimensions.
(c) The sequential drive and linear focus of the page.
(d) The scope and vision of the work.

8. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?
(a) Auditory and verbal interpretive skills.
(b) A fine sense of smell.
(c) Visual and verbal interpretive skills.
(d) Tactile sense and dexterity.

9. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?
(a) The panel's.
(b) Creator's.
(c) Character's.
(d) Reader/viewer's.

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

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

12. What conventions do comics rely on?
(a) Natural conventions.
(b) Symbolic conventions.
(c) Reading conventions.
(d) Emotional conventions.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people learn to measure distance by?

2. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

3. How can a panel be diagrammed?

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

5. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

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