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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?
(a) As a pure visual without text.
(b) With the text.
(c) As a blank space.
(d) With no visuals only text.

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

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

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

7. What has primacy over text in comics?
(a) Sound and song.
(b) The font.
(c) Body posture and gesture.
(d) The image.

8. What sort of inner emotions can contortions of the face reveal?
(a) Weather, pain, leaps of faith.
(b) Judgments, comfort, shoes.
(c) Pain, discomfort, comfort.
(d) Fatigue, morals.

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

10. What other method requires production of a paperboard with colors added to transparent overlays?
(a) Blue line.
(b) Red line.
(c) Green line.
(d) Black line.

11. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?
(a) Humans would kill more.
(b) Humans wouldn't kill animals.
(c) Humans would kill fewer.
(d) Humans would love animals.

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

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

14. What skills are mandatory because the sequential art of comics is intended for reproduction?
(a) Technical skills.
(b) Financial skills.
(c) Functional skills.
(d) Empathetic skills.

15. When can artists render color directly over line work?
(a) When color process engraving by electronic scanning method arrives.
(b) When the lines dissolve.
(c) When the color is added to transparent overlays.
(d) When the electronic scanner engraves the comic.

Short Answer Questions

1. When writing words, authors do what to the reader's imagination?

2. What sweeping characteristic helps make the point of the artist and influence the reader/viewer?

3. What field is writing for comics closely related to?

4. What should artists also read steadily to learn how to create plot and narration?

5. In theory, what does the reader/viewer already know how to understand?

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