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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Blood in the Gutter.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?
(a) Idols
(b) Pictorial
(c) Non-pictorial
(d) Saints

3. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) grammar
(b) capitalization
(c) speech
(d) punctuation

4. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."
(a) cartoon
(b) vessel
(c) message
(d) content

5. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing
(b) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
(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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of Max Ernst's surreal plate sequence?

3. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Herges' style is typically comprised of __________________.

4. How are Egyptian paintings read?

5. What additional early examples of comics does the author mention but NOT cover?

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