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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. When words are used, the task of rendering body and face grows more?
(a) Nonsensical.
(b) Incomplete.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Easy.

2. What two types of applications is sequential art normally divided into?
(a) Moralism and fanaticism.
(b) Instruction and entertainment.
(c) Existentialism and entertainment.
(d) Experimentalism and nihilism.

3. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?
(a) The artist's memory.
(b) The artist's skill.
(c) The artist's business.
(d) The artist's style.

4. When can artists render color directly over line work?
(a) When the electronic scanner engraves the comic.
(b) When the color is added to transparent overlays.
(c) When color process engraving by electronic scanning method arrives.
(d) When the lines dissolve.

5. In what vocabulary are body and gestures and postures stored?
(a) Syntactic vocabulary.
(b) Morphological vocabulary.
(c) Auditory vocabulary.
(d) Non-verbal vocabulary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of inner emotions can contortions of the face reveal?

2. What is a modern attempt at codifying the wide range of postures and the emotions they reflect

3. In what person does Eisner illustrate and recast Hamlet?

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

5. What do the writer and artist "pledge allegiance" to when working on comics together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 5.

2. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 6.

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

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

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

6. Why do purely instructional comics often use humor?

7. How has technology challenged the individuality of artists?

8. Name four of the eleven points Eisner covers, because he thinks an artist must understand about how objects work in order to portray them skillfully.

9. Why should an artist read short stories?

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

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