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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. The sequential artist and the reader must share what kind of experience?
(a) Life experience.
(b) Monetary trade.
(c) Oral communication.
(d) Skill set experience.

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

3. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.
(b) Comics must function like sentences.
(c) The reader will stop reading.
(d) The comic will stop making sense.

4. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?
(a) Its size.
(b) Its weight.
(c) Its feeling.
(d) Its shape.

5. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?
(a) Be invincible.
(b) Sing.
(c) Be invisible.
(d) Fly.

Short Answer Questions

1. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?

2. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

3. What are these artists trying to arrange?

4. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

5. What can the frame's shape or absence convey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 3.

2. Besides the text in comics, what must the reader/viewer "read"?

3. Explain how composing a comic strip panel is like designing a mural, illustration, painting, or theatrical scene.

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

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

6. How do people normally measure distance?

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

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

9. Describe the difference between time and timing.

10. What is the function of balloons?

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