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

2. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?
(a) John.
(b) Carboy T. Gretch.
(c) Mariford Rubens.
(d) Cranfranz Qwayle.

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

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

5. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?
(a) Changes in pressure of vocal strings and ink.
(b) Changes in vocal patterns.
(c) Changes in inflection and sound levels in speech.
(d) Changes in heart palpitations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can often be left out in subsequent panels after the first page of a story?

2. Through what must the artist seize attention and dictate the sequence?

3. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?

4. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?

5. What specific content does Chapter 4 discuss?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the difference between time and timing.

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

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

6. Why is text sometimes lettered in a style consistent with the sentiment of a scene?

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

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

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

10. Why is the repetitiveness of comics compared to a language forming its own grammar?

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