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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must the artist deal with to decide when abbreviations or omissions are required?
(a) Time limitations.
(b) Punctuation placement.
(c) Space limitations and the artist's rendering skills.
(d) Skills, technique, and sweat.

2. What kinds of tasks are by nature, sequential?
(a) Chores and language.
(b) Thoughts and actions.
(c) Guidelines and perspective.
(d) Procedures and processes.

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

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

5. In what person does Eisner illustrate and recast Hamlet?
(a) A desperate accountant.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A giant.
(d) A modern ghetto youth.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What should the artist be able to produce?
(a) Flawless images.
(b) Speedy replicas.
(c) Recognizable imagery.
(d) Minute details.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter 5 examine?

2. What dominates the reader's initial response?

3. What is the title of Chapter 6?

4. What kind of judgments do people make about faces?

5. When can artists render color directly over line work?

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