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

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

3. What kind of comics are generally entertainment-oriented?
(a) Stickers and graphic novels.
(b) Periodical comics and graphic novels.
(c) Fairy tales and dailies.
(d) Comic books and warning labels.

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Application (The Use of Sequential Art).
(b) Illustration.
(c) Technique (The Skill of the Artist).
(d) Sequence and the Mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives voice to thoughts and gives meaning to action?

2. What must control the comics project start to finish?

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

4. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?

5. What do most humans understand the face as?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which works are generally entertainment-oriented, and why?

2. Why do purely instructional comics often use humor?

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

4. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 7.

5. 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.

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

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

8. Why do entertainment comics deny to the readers/viewers much of the freedom they would enjoy in pure prose?

9. Explain why comic writers first create a written script of their idea and story/plot, including narrative and dialog (balloons).

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

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