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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, A Word about Color.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Jaime Hernandez
(b) Carl Barks
(c) Tom King
(d) Dave Sim and Derhard

2. In what year were the three additive primaries isolated?
(a) 1776
(b) 1612
(c) 1945
(d) 1861

3. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.
(a) exponential
(b) logarithmic
(c) indirect
(d) linear

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?

3. Which artist was the first to depict motion by using a single line?

4. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?

5. Japanese comics artists also drew more realistic characters to emphasize __________________________.

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