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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. Who was the audience for early forms of sequential art?
(a) Broad audiences with no formal education.
(b) Kings and queens.
(c) The formally educated.
(d) Ministers and rabbis.

2. What is determined by how much space is available and what technology is to be used to reproduce it?
(a) Size and number of ink sets.
(b) Number of pages.
(c) Size and number of pages and colors.
(d) Size of pens and number of colors.

3. What should the artist study before making comics?
(a) Mathematics, science, religion.
(b) Geometry, anatomy, composition.
(c) Algebra, astronomy, drawing.
(d) Anatomy, perspective, and composition.

4. What does Eisner wish artists to know about shadow?
(a) It evokes fear.
(b) It evokes danger.
(c) It evokes joy.
(d) It evokes respect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the absolute ratio of words to picture in comics?

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

3. How big is the simplified script when determining an agreement between artist and writer?

4. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?

5. What does Chapter 5 examine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has technology challenged the individuality of artists?

2. Explain the goal of "Body language".

3. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 8.

4. Why does Eisner reproduce several pages from his graphic novel To the Heart of the Storm along with a close-up pencil dummy page?

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

6. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 6.

7. Why should an artist read short stories?

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

9. Why do purely instructional comics often use humor?

10. Explain why comic writers first create a written script of their idea and story/plot, including narrative and dialog (balloons).

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