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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?
(a) Mariford Rubens.
(b) Cranfranz Qwayle.
(c) Carboy T. Gretch.
(d) John.

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

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

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

9. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?
(a) Georgian.
(b) Asian.
(c) Slavic.
(d) Atlantic.

10. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?
(a) Timing.
(b) Character development.
(c) Blocking.
(d) Spacing.

11. 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.

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

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

14. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?
(a) Heavy marking.
(b) Exaggerated gesture.
(c) Clear blocking.
(d) Simple, concise images.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

2. What do people learn to measure distance by?

3. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?

4. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

5. What did comics evolve into?

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