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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 is the title of Chapter 4?

2. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

3. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?

4. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?

5. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give a brief summary of the historical evolution of comics according to Chapter 1.

2. Where does the emotion or "intuitiveness" of a panel come from?

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

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

5. Why do images without words require extra sophistication in the reader/viewer?

6. How does the panel function as a stage?

7. What does communicating ideas involve?

8. How does Eisner analyze a long Spirit story, "Foul Play," to show how time is realized through the sequence of events?

9. Describe the nature of calligraphy.

10. What are used to move a reader/viewer through time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eisner specifies a very organized procedure for comic writers and artists. Comic writers and artists must follow this procedure together. Discuss the idea and importance of teamwork in comics. Support your claims with two examples taken from any chapter.

Essay Topic 2

Chapter 3 analyzes the relationship between space, time, and visual perspective. Eisner explains that distance is often measured by sight and sound, but it is more difficult to assess time, because it is more illusory. Compile at least three examples provided by Eisner's work and examine the similarities and differences between how time, sight, and sound are measured and expressed in comics.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 6, Eisner discusses the history of repetitive glyphs and explains their importance in comics as a form of language. Compare and contrast the repetitive glyphs in early cave drawings, Egyptian friezes, hieroglyphics, and comics. How did these codes progress? How did comics draw upon and progress from these ancient examples?

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