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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. How should publishers act?
(a) As moneymakers.
(b) As entertainers.
(c) As catalysts.
(d) As robots.

2. What sort of inner emotions can contortions of the face reveal?
(a) Judgments, comfort, shoes.
(b) Weather, pain, leaps of faith.
(c) Fatigue, morals.
(d) Pain, discomfort, comfort.

3. How many panels must an action sometimes be broken into to clarify the action?
(a) Several.
(b) All.
(c) None.
(d) Many.

4. In what vocabulary are body and gestures and postures stored?
(a) Non-verbal vocabulary.
(b) Morphological vocabulary.
(c) Syntactic vocabulary.
(d) Auditory vocabulary.

5. What does Eisner depict in three panels as an example of the inseparability of words and images?
(a) Five gold rings.
(b) Five golden geese.
(c) Three golden retrievers.
(d) Two goldfish in a bowl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the writer and artist "pledge allegiance" to when working on comics together?

2. What can give insight into a character's lifestyle and allow sociological observations?

3. When writing words, authors do what to the reader's imagination?

4. What field is writing for comics closely related to?

5. What is often predetermined by the nature of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are technical skills mandatory for comic book artists?

2. Why does artwork dominate the reader's initial response?

3. Why are comic book artists frequently hired to produce storyboards for movie scripts and motion pictures?

4. Why do purely instructional comics often use humor?

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

6. How has technology challenged the individuality of artists?

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

8. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 7.

9. Why is writing for comics most closely related to playwriting?

10. How can the artist successfully convey an image of the human body?

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