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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) The panel's.
(b) Creator's.
(c) Reader/viewer's.
(d) Character's.

2. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?
(a) Geometric.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Religious.
(d) Emotional.

3. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?
(a) The One Principle.
(b) The Unity of the Mind.
(c) The Ten Commandments.
(d) The Five Ideals.

4. What do comics largely emulate?
(a) Real experience.
(b) Angelic visions.
(c) Visual aesthetics.
(d) Surrealist perspectives.

5. What can be altered to add time lapse without altering rhythm?
(a) Focal energy.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Anger.
(d) Thought process.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tendency of the eye is an obstacle in comics?

2. How do comics form a language?

3. What did comics evolve into?

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

5. Stories can be told through what alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the difference between time and timing.

2. How does Eisner analyze a long Spirit story, "Foul Play," to show how time is realized through the sequence of events?

3. How does the panel function as a stage?

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

5. Describe the nature of calligraphy.

6. Why is bridging gaps in the action a more visceral than intellectual activity?

7. Why is text sometimes lettered in a style consistent with the sentiment of a scene?

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

9. Give examples of different lettering techniques or styles from Eisner's story Contract with God.

10. What does communicating ideas involve?

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