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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. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Moment-to-moment
(c) Action-to-action
(d) Subject-to-subject

2. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
(b) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing
(c) A representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred
(d) Any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea

3. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?
(a) Robert Crumb
(b) Rory Hayes
(c) Carl Bark
(d) Charles Schultz

4. Due to the negative connotation of the word "comics," many comics artists have preferred to be known as ________________________.
(a) Illustrators
(b) All of the above
(c) Commercial artists
(d) Cartoonists

5. Who is the author of the book?
(a) Scott McCloud
(b) Will Eisner
(c) Rudolphe Töpffer
(d) Stan Lee

Short Answer Questions

1. Pictures are ______ information. Writing is _______ information.

2. In the structure of a comic, where can senses and emotions be portrayed?

3. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"

4. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?

5. What symbol does the author use to demonstrate the universality of cartoon imagery?

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