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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can instructional comics be divided?
(a) Technical and inspirational.
(b) Technical and latitudinal.
(c) Attitudinal and longitudinal.
(d) Technical and attitudinal.

2. What two types of applications is sequential art normally divided into?
(a) Experimentalism and nihilism.
(b) Instruction and entertainment.
(c) Moralism and fanaticism.
(d) Existentialism and entertainment.

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

4. 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 Mountaintop.
(d) Hamlet on a Rooftop.

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

6. What kind of stories have dominated the field of comics because of the limitations of the medium?
(a) Life-changing stories.
(b) Simple, obvious stories.
(c) Didactic moral stories.
(d) Complex, intriguing stories.

7. What field is writing for comics closely related to?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Theatrics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Playwriting.

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

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

11. Who was the audience for early forms of sequential art?
(a) Kings and queens.
(b) The formally educated.
(c) Broad audiences with no formal education.
(d) Ministers and rabbis.

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

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

14. What should artists also read steadily to learn how to create plot and narration?
(a) Novels.
(b) Short stories.
(c) Essays.
(d) Articles.

15. What is often predetermined by the nature of the story?
(a) Surrealist or Dada style.
(b) Humorous or realistic style.
(c) Linear or algebraic style.
(d) Graphic or illustrative style.

Short Answer Questions

1. A comic artist's work must be reproducible by whose specifications?

2. What does Eisner use as an example to stress the value and dignity of work and whet interest and curiosity?

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

4. What was used initially to create code that can be memorized and deciphered?

5. What is the title of Chapter 7?

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