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

2. What can give insight into a character's lifestyle and allow sociological observations?
(a) Posture and gesture.
(b) Posture and thought.
(c) Posture and observation.
(d) Gesture and time.

3. What does reading provide for the artist that he or she can use?
(a) A safe of information.
(b) A bank of facts and information.
(c) A basket of topics.
(d) A supply of ideas.

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

5. What field is writing for comics closely related to?
(a) Theatrics.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Playwriting.
(d) Journalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are amorphics?

2. What does Chapter 5 examine?

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

4. What does Eisner wish artists to know about shadow?

5. What dominates the reader's initial response?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the "blue line" method work?

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

3. Explain the goal of "Body language".

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. How are comic book artists most challenged in portraying amorphics?

6. Contrast gesture and posture.

7. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 5.

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

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

10. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 7.

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