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

2. What kind of movements are "frozen" in time?
(a) Instinctive.
(b) Waves.
(c) Postures.
(d) Gestures.

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

4. Because halftone engraving in newspapers was crude, early strips were limited to what art?
(a) Invisible line art.
(b) Blue line art.
(c) Black line art.
(d) Sepia line art.

5. What must artists know about the force of gravity?
(a) Gravity doesn't work the same everytime.
(b) The movement of clothing doesn't respond to gravity.
(c) Gravity is a force to be reckoned with.
(d) Everything on earth responds to gravity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Eisner's 1981 attempt to illustrate Shakespeare's famous soliloquy of Hamlet?

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

3. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?

4. What kind of judgments do people make about faces?

5. When can artists render color directly over line work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is teamwork often demanded by publishers?

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

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

6. Contrast gesture and posture.

7. Why do purely instructional comics often use humor?

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

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

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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