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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. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?
(a) Power, individuality, transcendence.
(b) Progression, change, style.
(c) Beauty, rhythm, and individuality.
(d) Beauty, power, rhythm.

2. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?
(a) Narrowpanels.
(b) Narrowplanes.
(c) Broadpages.
(d) Broadsheets.

3. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Identity.
(c) Construct.
(d) Method.

4. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Boxes.
(b) Trapezoids.
(c) Bubbles.
(d) Triangles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?

2. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?

3. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?

4. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?

5. What specific content does Chapter 4 discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does communicating ideas involve?

2. How do people normally measure distance?

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

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

5. Why is time more illusory in comics?

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

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

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

9. Why must the sequential artist deal with humans immersed in space and time?

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

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