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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) Writing and the Graphic.
(b) Writing and Essence.
(c) Writing and Art History.
(d) Writing and Sequential Art.

2. What is often predetermined by the nature of the story?
(a) Humorous or realistic style.
(b) Graphic or illustrative style.
(c) Surrealist or Dada style.
(d) Linear or algebraic style.

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

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

5. What was the name of Eisner's 1981 attempt to illustrate Shakespeare's famous soliloquy of Hamlet?
(a) Hamlet on a Mountaintop.
(b) Hamlet on a Rooftop.
(c) Hamlet in the Valley.
(d) Hamlet in the Kitchen.

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

7. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?
(a) The artist's style.
(b) The artist's memory.
(c) The artist's skill.
(d) The artist's business.

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

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

10. Because halftone engraving in newspapers was crude, early strips were limited to what art?
(a) Sepia line art.
(b) Invisible line art.
(c) Black line art.
(d) Blue line art.

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

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

13. Who is the artist at the mercy of?
(a) The engraver's shop.
(b) The commentator's shop.
(c) The publisher's shop.
(d) The copywriter's shop.

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

15. What two types of applications is sequential art normally divided into?
(a) Experimentalism and nihilism.
(b) Existentialism and entertainment.
(c) Instruction and entertainment.
(d) Moralism and fanaticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the face the most important part of the body in comics?

2. What kind of comics are generally entertainment-oriented?

3. What are amorphics?

4. What do purely instructional comics often use to show relevance?

5. What kind of movements flow together over short periods?

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