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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What approach predominates because comics mix letters and images?
(a) The lingual.
(b) The visual.
(c) The tactile.
(d) The sensory.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are "still" scenes used to bridge the gap between movie scripts and final photography on motion pictures?
(a) Wordboards.
(b) Story scenes.
(c) Storyboards.
(d) Imageboards.

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

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

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

12. How are comic book artists most challenged?
(a) Selection of angular perspective and gestural illustration.
(b) Portraying perspective and human bodies.
(c) Selection of particular moments and portraying amorphics.
(d) Selection of panoramic views.

13. What does Eisner use as an example to stress the value and dignity of work and whet interest and curiosity?
(a) Career booklets.
(b) Manuscripts.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Bookends.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a modern attempt at codifying the wide range of postures and the emotions they reflect

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

3. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?

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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