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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 transition stays within a scene or idea and requires more closure from the reader in order to find the transition meaningful?
(a) Non-sequitur
(b) Action-to-action
(c) Subject-to-subject
(d) Scene-to-scene

2. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?
(a) Reality
(b) Picture Plane
(c) Language
(d) Map

3. Because artists don't expect audiences to identify with backgrounds such as brick walls or landscapes, backgrounds tend to be more ______ than the story's characters.
(a) abstract
(b) non-existent
(c) simplified
(d) realistic

4. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?
(a) Spiegelman
(b) G. Hernandez
(c) Jack Kirby
(d) Osamu Tezuka

5. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.
(a) humorous; generous
(b) divisive; multiplicative
(c) subtractive; additive
(d) meaningless; abstract

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?

3. What genre cannot exist in comics?

4. Which of the following icons are fluid and variable in how realistic they are?

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

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