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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 conventions do comics rely on?
(a) Reading conventions.
(b) Emotional conventions.
(c) Symbolic conventions.
(d) Natural conventions.

2. What is used to move a reader or viewer through time?
(a) Lines.
(b) Texture.
(c) Colors.
(d) Panels.

3. Through what must the artist seize attention and dictate the sequence?
(a) The pages.
(b) The narrative.
(c) The sequence.
(d) The structural thought.

4. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?
(a) Morphemes.
(b) Roots.
(c) Calligraphy.
(d) Punctuation.

5. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?
(a) Sit quietly.
(b) View the action as presented.
(c) Press rewind and play buttons.
(d) Charge per viewing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 4?

2. What does the storyteller want to cause the reader to do?

3. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?

4. How do balloons function for sound in comics?

5. What element of weather messes with the typeface in Eisner's second example?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are close-ups used when facial expressions are critical?

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

4. What happens to the hero in one of Eisner's Spirit stories who wishes he could fly?

5. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 2.

6. What convention does Eisner break while depicting the scene of the hero's flight?

7. What are used to move a reader/viewer through time?

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

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

10. What is the function of balloons?

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