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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 transition requires deductive reasoning and transports the reader across significant distances of time and space?
(a) Subject-to-subject
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Scene-to-scene
(d) Moment-to-moment

2. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.
(a) meaningless; abstract
(b) humorous; generous
(c) divisive; multiplicative
(d) subtractive; additive

3. What is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?
(a) Fragmentation
(b) Dementia
(c) Closure
(d) Gestalt

4. "To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to ___________."
(a) be consigned to oblivion
(b) immortality
(c) hell
(d) a thousand deaths

5. What is a powerful force that happens between the panels that allows viewers to use their imagination?
(a) Endurance
(b) Participation
(c) Drive
(d) Education

Short Answer Questions

1. Which comic artist introduced the storytelling techniques used in most mainstream comics?

2. Which of the following activity does not grow out of basic human instincts?

3. Comic panels break up which of the following?

4. Which of the following is NOT a way to vary word balloons?

5. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?

(see the answer key)

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