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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 attitudinal.
(b) Technical and inspirational.
(c) Attitudinal and longitudinal.
(d) Technical and latitudinal.

2. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?
(a) Nonsensical.
(b) Incomplete.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Easy.

3. In what vocabulary are body and gestures and postures stored?
(a) Auditory vocabulary.
(b) Non-verbal vocabulary.
(c) Syntactic vocabulary.
(d) Morphological vocabulary.

4. When writing words, authors do what to the reader's imagination?
(a) Direct.
(b) Suspect.
(c) Hint.
(d) Suggest.

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

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

7. How many dimensions must an artist be able to render on a flat surface?
(a) Five dimensions.
(b) No dimensions.
(c) One dimension.
(d) Three dimensions.

8. What must convey both time and emotion, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Thought and emotion.
(b) Time and travel.
(c) Time and emotion.
(d) Emotion and Instinct.

9. What sweeping characteristic helps make the point of the artist and influence the reader/viewer?
(a) Broad scope.
(b) Gestural timidity.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Narrow scope.

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

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

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

13. What skills are mandatory because the sequential art of comics is intended for reproduction?
(a) Functional skills.
(b) Financial skills.
(c) Empathetic skills.
(d) Technical skills.

14. Because halftone engraving in newspapers was crude, early strips were limited to what art?
(a) Black line art.
(b) Invisible line art.
(c) Sepia line art.
(d) Blue line art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What must artists know about the force of gravity?

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

3. What sort of inner emotions can contortions of the face reveal?

4. What dominates the reader's initial response?

5. What do the writer and artist "pledge allegiance" to when working on comics together?

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