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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. What did Eisner call a desperation device?
(a) Motion line
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Sound effects
(d) Word balloon

2. What is the core of a work of art?
(a) Idiom
(b) None of these
(c) Craft
(d) Structure

3. Which artist incorporated neurotic quill-lines into his/her work?
(a) Krystine Kryttre
(b) R. Crumb
(c) Chester Gould
(d) Carl Bark

4. What transition bypasses time and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of the same place, idea or mood?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Action-to-action
(d) Moment-to-moment

5. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.
(a) five
(b) one
(c) three
(d) six

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible?"

2. "To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to ___________."

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

4. What step determines whether the art will be a book, a sculpture or a song?

5. Who was the creator of Uncle $crooge?

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