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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. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) 10th.
(b) 15th.
(c) 17th.
(d) 16th.

2. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?
(a) Junior Yogi, Part 2.
(b) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 2.
(c) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 1.
(d) George and the Yogi.

3. How can a panel be diagrammed?
(a) Like a word.
(b) Like a railroad track.
(c) Like a sentence.
(d) Like a song lyric.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?

2. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?

3. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?

4. The sequential artist and the reader must share what kind of experience?

5. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the nature of calligraphy.

2. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 2.

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

4. Describe the difference between time and timing.

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

6. Why are close-ups used when facial expressions are critical?

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

8. What is the function of balloons?

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

10. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 4.

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