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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do you describe the kind of activity that bridges gaps in the action of the comic?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Visceral.
(c) Spatial.
(d) Heartfelt.

2. When are the outlines determined by the artist?
(a) After the rest of the comic is drawn.
(b) After the artist decides on the action.
(c) Before the artist decides on the action.
(d) While the artist draws the page.

3. What can often be left out in subsequent panels after the first page of a story?
(a) The text.
(b) The setting.
(c) The characters.
(d) The panels.

4. Why does Eisner analyze this particular Spirit story in Chapter 3?
(a) To demonstrate the nature of space and width.
(b) To show how time is realized through sequence.
(c) To show how images and rhythm are disparate.
(d) To demonstrate the alteration of perspective.

5. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?
(a) Interlocked.
(b) Interfixed.
(c) Intersected.
(d) Intertwined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used to move a reader or viewer through time?

2. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?

3. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

4. What does the nature of lettering reflect about the artist?

5. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the emotion or "intuitiveness" of a panel come from?

2. Why is the repetitiveness of comics compared to a language forming its own grammar?

3. What does communicating ideas involve?

4. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 1: Comics as a Form of Reading.

5. Describe the nature of calligraphy.

6. What are used to move a reader/viewer through time?

7. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share life experiences for communication to occur?

8. What happens to the hero in one of Eisner's Spirit stories who wishes he could fly?

9. Why is time more illusory in comics?

10. When inscriptions reappeared in the 18th-century, what did artists use to arrange their thoughts and actions for the audience?

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