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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. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Herges' style is typically comprised of __________________.
(a) icon and language
(b) icon and reality
(c) reality and language
(d) meaning and icon

2. What invention had a significant effect on comics?
(a) Recycled paper
(b) Printing
(c) Colored ink
(d) Ballpoint pens

3. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?
(a) A form of amplification through complication
(b) A form of compression through complication
(c) A form of amplification through simplification
(d) A form of compression through simplification

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

5. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?
(a) Animation
(b) Juxtaposed pictorial and other images
(c) Intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer
(d) In deliberate sequence

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a powerful force that happens between the panels that allows viewers to use their imagination?

2. When reading comics, how many senses are used between panels?

3. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

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

5. What transition bypasses time and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of the same place, idea or mood?

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