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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. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.
(a) grim, deadly attitude
(b) bleak, neutral attitude
(c) optimistic, dramatic attitude
(d) profitable, kind attitude

2. What Scottish physicist isolated the three additive primaries?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Sir James Clerk
(c) Lord Kelvin
(d) Louis Ducos Du Hauron

3. Panel shapes affect which of the following?
(a) Time
(b) Experience
(c) Meanings
(d) Dimensions

4. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?
(a) Lord Kelvin
(b) Sir James Clerk
(c) Alexander Graham Bell
(d) Louis Ducos Du Hauron

5. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?
(a) Spiegelman
(b) Kirby
(c) Jose Munoz
(d) Jules Feiffer

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-expression and communication?

2. What is typically the second most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

3. This effect of contrasting characters and backgrounds is used by which of the following?

4. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.

5. Which of the following is NOT an example of possible primitive art?

(see the answer key)

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