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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of printing never became widespread in comic printing.
(a) Rotogravure printing.
(b) Lineogravure printing.
(c) Photogravure printing.
(d) Blaugravure printing.

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

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

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

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

6. What are amorphics?
(a) Representations of heat and light
(b) Thought transformations.
(c) Thoughts that flow in waves.
(d) The pain or glow of love and inner conflicts.

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

8. What are gestures "almost idiomatic" to?
(a) Specific continents.
(b) Specific timezones.
(c) Specific economic backgrounds.
(d) Specific regions or cultures.

9. What kind of movements flow together over short periods?
(a) Extremely subtle movements.
(b) Extremely graphic flashes.
(c) Broad, gestural sketches.
(d) Extremely large gestures.

10. What is the absolute ratio of words to picture in comics?
(a) 3:1.
(b) Twenty characters for three panels.
(c) There is no absolute ratio.
(d) 2:5.

11. What is usually the key to a gesture's meaning?
(a) The final position.
(b) The final bubble.
(c) The final sketch.
(d) The final panel.

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

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

14. How big is the simplified script when determining an agreement between artist and writer?
(a) Two pages.
(b) Twenty pages.
(c) Half a page.
(d) Sixty inches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eisner say images can trigger?

2. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?

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

4. What must artists realize about casual props like door hinges?

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

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