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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must be followed completely by the artist and writer?
(a) The drawing process.
(b) The thinking process.
(c) The writing process.
(d) The painting process.

2. What is the intermediate mock up that allows editor, writer, and artist to review the project called in comics?
(a) Layout.
(b) Mechanical.
(c) Dummy.
(d) Story board.

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

4. How big is the simplified script when determining an agreement between artist and writer?
(a) Two pages.
(b) Half a page.
(c) Twenty pages.
(d) Sixty inches.

5. Why is the face the most important part of the body in comics?
(a) It reveals nothing.
(b) It reveals the personality.
(c) It shows who is who.
(d) It is fun to draw.

6. What sweeping characteristic helps make the point of the artist and influence the reader/viewer?
(a) Gestural timidity.
(b) Broad scope.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Narrow scope.

7. How many dimensions must an artist be able to render on a flat surface?
(a) Three dimensions.
(b) No dimensions.
(c) Five dimensions.
(d) One dimension.

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

9. What is determined by how much space is available and what technology is to be used to reproduce it?
(a) Number of pages.
(b) Size and number of ink sets.
(c) Size and number of pages and colors.
(d) Size of pens and number of colors.

10. What kind of movements are "frozen" in time?
(a) Waves.
(b) Instinctive.
(c) Gestures.
(d) Postures.

11. What does reading provide for the artist that he or she can use?
(a) A safe of information.
(b) A basket of topics.
(c) A bank of facts and information.
(d) A supply of ideas.

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

13. Who was the audience for early forms of sequential art?
(a) Kings and queens.
(b) Ministers and rabbis.
(c) The formally educated.
(d) Broad audiences with no formal education.

14. In what time frame did comics assume the typical reader was a "10-year old from Iowa"?
(a) Early 1940s to late 1970s.
(b) 1940s to early 1960s.
(c) 1950s to 1960s.
(d) Early 1930s to late 1960s.

15. What must artist and writers risk?
(a) Trial and error.
(b) Exception and potential.
(c) Fix and finance.
(d) Expectation and loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What approach predominates because comics mix letters and images?

2. What should the artist study before making comics?

3. What is a modern attempt at codifying the wide range of postures and the emotions they reflect

4. What kind of printing never became widespread in comic printing.

5. What are "still" scenes used to bridge the gap between movie scripts and final photography on motion pictures?

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