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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. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?
(a) Power, individuality, transcendence.
(b) Progression, change, style.
(c) Beauty, power, rhythm.
(d) Beauty, rhythm, and individuality.

2. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By breaking the left-to-right convention.
(b) By breaking the right-to-left convention.
(c) By using the spiral principle.
(d) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.

3. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Identity.
(b) Method.
(c) Construct.
(d) Symbol.

4. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1934.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What must a reader possess in order to read comic books?

2. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?

3. What did comics evolve into?

4. What do different renderings require from the viewer?

5. The earliest use of balloons was in what type of art?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Besides the text in comics, what must the reader/viewer "read"?

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

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

5. Describe the nature of calligraphy.

6. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 3.

7. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 4.

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

9. How does the panel function as a stage?

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

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