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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 was used initially to create code that can be memorized and deciphered?
(a) Repetitive summary.
(b) Reproduction.
(c) Summary.
(d) Repetitive glyphs.

2. What are amorphics?
(a) Representations of heat and light
(b) The pain or glow of love and inner conflicts.
(c) Thoughts that flow in waves.
(d) Thought transformations.

3. What skills are mandatory because the sequential art of comics is intended for reproduction?
(a) Functional skills.
(b) Technical skills.
(c) Financial skills.
(d) Empathetic skills.

4. What does Eisner believe would happen if animals' faces were more flexible?
(a) Humans would love animals.
(b) Humans would kill fewer.
(c) Humans wouldn't kill animals.
(d) Humans would kill more.

5. What must an artist realize the body works as?
(a) A robot.
(b) A mechanical device with limited ranges of movement.
(c) A skeleton with meat attached.
(d) A corporeal being with a divine soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does reading provide for the artist that he or she can use?

2. What kind of movements are "frozen" in time?

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

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

5. How can instructional comics be divided?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How has technology challenged the individuality of artists?

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

4. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 8.

5. Why should an artist read short stories?

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

7. Why are the body's gestures and postures stored in the artist's memory as a non-verbal vocabulary?

8. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 7.

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

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

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