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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. What are these artists trying to arrange?
(a) Power and wealth.
(b) Neural synapses.
(c) Simple questions.
(d) Complex thoughts, sounds, actions, and ideas.

2. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?
(a) The artist's technique.
(b) The artist's style.
(c) The artist's vision.
(d) The artist's patience.

3. How do you describe the kind of activity that bridges gaps in the action of the comic?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Visceral.
(c) Spatial.
(d) Heartfelt.

4. How did comics begin?
(a) In MS Paint.
(b) As short features.
(c) As one-page illustrations.
(d) In printmaking.

5. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?
(a) Water.
(b) Resin.
(c) Amber.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?

2. What demonstrates the meaning of the balloon?

3. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

4. How can a panel be diagrammed?

5. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What obstacle of the eye must the artist try to obliterate?

2. Why did artists after the 16th century use expressions, postures, and backdrops to express their ideas?

3. Describe the difference between time and timing.

4. Describe the nature of calligraphy.

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

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

7. How do people normally measure distance?

8. What can the artist be tempted to compromise for the sake of attracting buyers?

9. How can stories can be told through imagery alone?

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

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