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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What other example of time measurement does Eisner mention?
(a) Musical notation.
(b) Symmetric space.
(c) Diameter.
(d) Seconds.

4. Why does Eisner analyze this particular Spirit story in Chapter 3?
(a) To show how images and rhythm are disparate.
(b) To demonstrate the nature of space and width.
(c) To show how time is realized through sequence.
(d) To demonstrate the alteration of perspective.

5. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?
(a) The artist's technique.
(b) The artist's style.
(c) The artist's vision.
(d) The artist's patience.

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

7. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?
(a) Meta panels.
(b) Beta panels.
(c) Alpha panels.
(d) Gamma panels.

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

9. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Radiowaves.
(d) Minutes.

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

11. What does the storyteller want to cause the reader to do?
(a) To become involved.
(b) To become isolated.
(c) To become extremist.
(d) To become self-aware.

12. Why is the basic panel layout normally strictly prescribed?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Space constraints.
(c) Timelines.
(d) Due dates.

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

14. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.
(b) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(c) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.
(d) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for panels?

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

3. What is used to move a reader or viewer through time?

4. What does the nature of lettering reflect about the artist?

5. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?

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