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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 writing process.
(b) The thinking process.
(c) The painting process.
(d) The drawing process.

2. What is the most universal image in sequential art?
(a) A tree.
(b) A world.
(c) The human psyche.
(d) The human body.

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

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

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

6. What does Chapter 6 focus on?
(a) Art styles.
(b) Character development.
(c) Graphic imagery.
(d) Writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?
(a) They should be obsessed.
(b) They should spend time apart.
(c) They should be one.
(d) They should be radically determined.

14. What can give insight into a character's lifestyle and allow sociological observations?
(a) Gesture and time.
(b) Posture and thought.
(c) Posture and observation.
(d) Posture and gesture.

15. What depends on choosing worthwhile themes and innovating the exposition?
(a) The past of periodical comics.
(b) The future of the graphic novel.
(c) The past of the graphic novel.
(d) The future of the written word.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eisner depict in three panels as an example of the inseparability of words and images?

2. What is the intermediate mock up that allows editor, writer, and artist to review the project called in comics?

3. Because halftone engraving in newspapers was crude, early strips were limited to what art?

4. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?

5. What should the artist be able to produce?

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