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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?

2. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

3. What characteristics of panels contribute to the sequence of time?

4. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

5. What two things limit the artist's choice of outline?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do people normally measure distance?

2. Why is text sometimes lettered in a style consistent with the sentiment of a scene?

3. Why did artists after the 16th century use expressions, postures, and backdrops to express their ideas?

4. What happens to the hero in one of Eisner's Spirit stories who wishes he could fly?

5. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share life experiences for communication to occur?

6. Why is the repetitiveness of comics compared to a language forming its own grammar?

7. Describe the difference between time and timing.

8. What can the artist be tempted to compromise for the sake of attracting buyers?

9. How can stories can be told through imagery alone?

10. Besides the text in comics, what must the reader/viewer "read"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 2, the relationship of the sequential artist and the reader is examined. Eisner suggests that the reader and the sequential artist must communicate through mutual life experience. Answer the following question: Why must the sequential artist and the reader share life experiences for communication to occur? Use one of your own supporting ideas to back up your statement and at least two examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Eisner argues that comics and images can be "read." Explain the author's reasoning using two examples from the book. Defend or oppose Eisner's position.

Essay Topic 3

Eisner uses four drawings in Chapter 5 to demonstrate the power of facial expressions. Examine the following idea of the face as the "window to the mind" in relation to these four drawings. How can drawing faces in comics be revealing? What sort of things can be revealed by faces in comics?

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