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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 intermediate mock up that allows editor, writer, and artist to review the project called in comics?

2. What does Eisner think light implies?

3. What is usually the key to a gesture's meaning?

4. What does Eisner use as an example to stress the value and dignity of work and whet interest and curiosity?

5. What does Eisner depict in three panels as an example of the inseparability of words and images?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do purely instructional comics often use humor?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What temptation do artists have to detract from the text?

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

10. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 6.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter 2 focuses on the juxtaposition of words and imagery. However, it also addresses the idea that images express a visual language in a limited amount of pages. Discuss three examples that explain how the artist can present images that clearly signify meaning to the viewer.

Essay Topic 2

Since the artist controls the orientation of the reader/viewer's perspective, the artist functions somewhat like a director of the comic. Eisner goes even further to say that the panel functions as a stage. Discuss three ways in which the panel works as a stage. Use material from Chapter 4 to support your examples.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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