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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many points does Eisner say an artist must understand about how objects work?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

2. What things are not described but added when words are coupled with images?
(a) Sound, monologues, vocal patterns.
(b) Connections, webs, tangles.
(c) Sound, dialogue, connections.
(d) Weight, height, style.

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

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

5. What does Chapter 5 examine?
(a) Expressive anatomy.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Framing.
(d) Sequence.

6. 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.

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

8. In what person does Eisner illustrate and recast Hamlet?
(a) A modern ghetto youth.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A desperate accountant.
(d) A giant.

9. What do the writer and artist "pledge allegiance" to when working on comics together?
(a) A specific skill set.
(b) The integrated whole.
(c) The message.
(d) The point.

10. What must artists realize about casual props like door hinges?
(a) They must be rendered accurately.
(b) They must look surreal.
(c) They must be brown with rust.
(d) They must move with gravity.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the artist study before making comics?

2. What are amorphics?

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

4. What does Eisner wish artists to know about shadow?

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

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