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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. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?
(a) Creator's.
(b) Character's.
(c) Reader/viewer's.
(d) The panel's.

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

3. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?
(a) John.
(b) Carboy T. Gretch.
(c) Mariford Rubens.
(d) Cranfranz Qwayle.

4. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.
(b) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.
(c) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(d) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.

5. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?
(a) Style.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Paneling.
(d) Timing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?

2. Does this book suggest the structures of illustration and of prose are similar?

3. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?

4. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?

5. What novelty can suggest dimension and involve the reader/viewer better than a regular container?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do images without words require extra sophistication in the reader/viewer?

2. Give a brief summary of the historical evolution of comics according to Chapter 1.

3. What is the function of balloons?

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

5. How do people normally measure distance?

6. How does the panel function as a stage?

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

8. Describe the difference between time and timing.

9. What does communicating ideas involve?

10. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 4.

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