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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Living in Line.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aside from the central figure in an image, where else can emotion be depicted?
(a) Silent caption
(b) Background
(c) Gutters
(d) Foreground

2. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.
(a) the creator and audience
(b) the artist and the publisher
(c) the brand and the distributor
(d) the reader and the frame

3. How are Egyptian paintings read?
(a) Right to left
(b) Zig-zag
(c) Left to right
(d) Up to down

4. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?
(a) Underground and children's comics
(b) Superhero and children's comics
(c) Erotica and drama comics
(d) Underground and erotica comics

5. The author believes that comics is an art form similar to which of the following?
(a) Music
(b) Theatre
(c) Written word
(d) All of the above

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?

2. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."

3. Who does the author say is the father of modern comics?

4. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.

5. Panel shapes affect which of the following?

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