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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 kind of stories have dominated the field of comics because of the limitations of the medium?
(a) Didactic moral stories.
(b) Life-changing stories.
(c) Complex, intriguing stories.
(d) Simple, obvious stories.

2. What has provided a new horizon to the industry?
(a) The emergence of the web article.
(b) The emergence of the graphic novel.
(c) The emergence of the periodical.
(d) The emergence of the daily comic.

3. Who is the artist at the mercy of?
(a) The engraver's shop.
(b) The publisher's shop.
(c) The commentator's shop.
(d) The copywriter's shop.

4. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?
(a) Easy.
(b) Incomplete.
(c) Nonsensical.
(d) Difficult.

5. What does Chapter 6 focus on?
(a) Writing.
(b) Art styles.
(c) Character development.
(d) Graphic imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must artists realize about casual props like door hinges?

2. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?

3. What are amorphics?

4. What depends on choosing worthwhile themes and innovating the exposition?

5. What has primacy over text in comics?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which works are generally entertainment-oriented, and why?

2. Why do people make important daily judgments about faces?

3. Why should an artist read short stories?

4. How has technology challenged the individuality of artists?

5. What temptation do artists have to detract from the text?

6. How can posture and gesture give insight into a character's lifestyle and allow sociological observations?

7. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 7.

8. Why do entertainment comics deny to the readers/viewers much of the freedom they would enjoy in pure prose?

9. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 8.

10. Why does Eisner reproduce the story written by Jules Feiffer that was never published?

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