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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Six Steps.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) capitalization
(b) grammar
(c) speech
(d) punctuation

2. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a pioneer or revolutionary whose art became the purpose?
(a) Spiegelman
(b) McCay
(c) All of these
(d) Herriman

3. What transition stays within a scene or idea and requires more closure from the reader in order to find the transition meaningful?
(a) Action-to-action
(b) Scene-to-scene
(c) Non-sequitur
(d) Subject-to-subject

4. Whose artwork incorporated mad lines to create crazy toddler?
(a) Krystine Kryttre
(b) Carl Bark
(c) Chester Gould
(d) R. Crumb

5. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?
(a) Spiegelman
(b) Jules Feiffer
(c) Jose Munoz
(d) Kirby

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?

2. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?

3. What is the most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

4. Who was the creator of Uncle $crooge?

5. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?

(see the answer key)

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