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

2. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?
(a) Heavy lines.
(b) Panoramic views.
(c) Narrow channels.
(d) Close-ups.

3. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?
(a) Belief.
(b) Technical practice.
(c) Little knowledge.
(d) Extra sophistication.

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

5. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?
(a) Keep him or her at bay.
(b) Explain the storyline more clearly.
(c) Pull him or her in.
(d) Show the audience a better picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?

2. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

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. Why does Eisner analyze this particular Spirit story in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 3.

4. Why do images without words require extra sophistication in the reader/viewer?

5. Describe the nature of calligraphy.

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

7. How does the panel function as a stage?

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

9. What does communicating ideas involve?

10. What is the function of balloons?

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