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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What do most humans understand the face as?
(a) A window to the eyes.
(b) A window to the heart.
(c) A window to the mind.
(d) A pathway to the top.

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

5. What was used initially to create code that can be memorized and deciphered?
(a) Repetitive glyphs.
(b) Summary.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Repetitive summary.

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

7. What is the face sometimes treated as?
(a) A facet.
(b) An appendage.
(c) A ligament.
(d) A blight.

8. What must an artist realize the body works as?
(a) A robot.
(b) A corporeal being with a divine soul.
(c) A skeleton with meat attached.
(d) A mechanical device with limited ranges of movement.

9. A comic artist's work must be reproducible by whose specifications?
(a) The publisher's.
(b) The reader's.
(c) The illustrator's.
(d) The financeer's.

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. What must artists know about the force of gravity?
(a) Gravity is a force to be reckoned with.
(b) The movement of clothing doesn't respond to gravity.
(c) Gravity doesn't work the same everytime.
(d) Everything on earth responds to gravity.

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

13. What does Eisner think light implies?
(a) Safety.
(b) Fear.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Love.

14. What is the most useful and most used word in comics?
(a) Now.
(b) During.
(c) Consequently.
(d) Meanwhile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other method requires production of a paperboard with colors added to transparent overlays?

2. How many panels must an action sometimes be broken into to clarify the action?

3. What are gestures "almost idiomatic" to?

4. What are amorphics?

5. What is usually the key to a gesture's meaning?

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