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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. Comic panels break up which of the following?
(a) Space and consistency
(b) Sound and movement
(c) Time and space
(d) Time and sound

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

3. McCloud notes that we perceive the world as ______ through the experience of our senses, even though our senses can only reveal a _______ world.
(a) whole; distrustful
(b) incomplete; whole
(c) whole; fragmented
(d) incomplete; stable

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.

2. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?

3. How are Egyptian paintings read?

4. How long is the tapestry detailing the Norman Conquest of England?

5. What new law was created to protect Töpffer's new art form following the successful publication of "A Harlot's Progress" and its sequel?

(see the answer key)

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