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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eisner use as an example to stress the value and dignity of work and whet interest and curiosity?
(a) Career booklets.
(b) Pamphlets.
(c) Manuscripts.
(d) Bookends.

2. What does Eisner wish artists to know about shadow?
(a) It evokes fear.
(b) It evokes danger.
(c) It evokes respect.
(d) It evokes joy.

3. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?
(a) Incomplete.
(b) Easy.
(c) Nonsensical.
(d) Difficult.

4. When writing words, authors do what to the reader's imagination?
(a) Direct.
(b) Hint.
(c) Suggest.
(d) Suspect.

5. How many panels must an action sometimes be broken into to clarify the action?
(a) None.
(b) Many.
(c) All.
(d) Several.

6. How are comic book artists most challenged?
(a) Selection of panoramic views.
(b) Selection of particular moments and portraying amorphics.
(c) Selection of angular perspective and gestural illustration.
(d) Portraying perspective and human bodies.

7. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Sequence and the Mind.
(b) Application (The Use of Sequential Art).
(c) Illustration.
(d) Technique (The Skill of the Artist).

8. What kind of judgments do people make about faces?
(a) Only inconsequential judgments.
(b) No judgments.
(c) Important daily judgments.
(d) Half-hearted judgments.

9. How should publishers act?
(a) As robots.
(b) As entertainers.
(c) As moneymakers.
(d) As catalysts.

10. In theory, what does the reader/viewer already know how to understand?
(a) Linear algebra.
(b) Sequential art.
(c) Parallel dimensions.
(d) Philosophical principles.

11. What kind of comics are generally entertainment-oriented?
(a) Fairy tales and dailies.
(b) Stickers and graphic novels.
(c) Comic books and warning labels.
(d) Periodical comics and graphic novels.

12. What has provided a new horizon to the industry?
(a) The emergence of the graphic novel.
(b) The emergence of the periodical.
(c) The emergence of the daily comic.
(d) The emergence of the web article.

13. What dominates the reader's initial response?
(a) Artwork.
(b) Text.
(c) Texture.
(d) Hardbound novels.

14. What do purely instructional comics often use to show relevance?
(a) Humor.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Pain.

15. What gives voice to thoughts and gives meaning to action?
(a) Monologue.
(b) Dialog.
(c) Analog.
(d) Soliloquy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eisner think light implies?

2. What is the most useful and most used word in comics?

3. What does reading provide for the artist that he or she can use?

4. What kinds of tasks are by nature, sequential?

5. What must an artist realize the body works as?

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