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

2. A comic artist's work must be reproducible by whose specifications?
(a) The illustrator's.
(b) The reader's.
(c) The financeer's.
(d) The publisher's.

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

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

5. What kinds of tasks are by nature, sequential?
(a) Procedures and processes.
(b) Guidelines and perspective.
(c) Thoughts and actions.
(d) Chores and language.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What other method requires production of a paperboard with colors added to transparent overlays?

3. Who is the artist at the mercy of?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 8.

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

3. Why should an artist read short stories?

4. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 7.

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

6. Why must frozen moments convey both time and emotion?

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

8. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 5.

9. Explain the goal of "Body language".

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

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