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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) Monetary trade.
(b) Life experience.
(c) Oral communication.
(d) Skill set experience.

2. What does lettering often serves as an extension of?
(a) Tone.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Ink.
(d) Phrasal verbs.

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

4. From which point of view must the creator render the elements?
(a) Creator's.
(b) Character's.
(c) The panel's.
(d) Reader/viewer's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Stories can be told through what alone?

2. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?

3. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?

4. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?

5. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Give a brief summary of the historical evolution of comics according to Chapter 1.

4. How do people normally measure distance?

5. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 3.

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

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

8. Describe the difference between time and timing.

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

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

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