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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. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Jack Kirby
(b) Herge
(c) Marshall McLuhan
(d) Osamu Tezuka

2. In comics, words represent that which can only exist in time, _______.
(a) smell
(b) sound
(c) movement
(d) action

3. Which of the following is NOT a way to vary word balloons?
(a) Lettering style
(b) Content
(c) Shape
(d) All of the above

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

5. In a panel with a lot of action, such as the one on page 95, each figure is arranged sequentially and the audience will read them left to right. This could be argued as fitting the definition of _______.
(a) panels
(b) gutters
(c) comics
(d) cartoons

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following is NOT an American comic artist that uses the style of creating one set of lines to see and another to be?

5. What techniques can be used to create timelessness?

(see the answer key)

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