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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) Scene-to-scene
(b) Action-to-action
(c) Non-sequitur
(d) Subject-to-subject

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

3. Pictures are ______ information. Writing is _______ information.
(a) perceived; perceived
(b) perceived; received
(c) received; received
(d) received; perceived

4. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Mary Fleener's style is NOT typically comprised of ________.
(a) non-iconic content
(b) iconic content
(c) reality
(d) language

5. Which is an example of our ability to extend our identities into inanimate objects?
(a) Crutches
(b) Utensils
(c) All of the above
(d) Glass

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the screenfold of 8-Deer "Tiger's-Claw" that was discovered by Cortes around 1519?

2. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?

3. Which pair of words does not relate to each other, in terms of comic style?

4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?

5. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?

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