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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Vocabulary of Comics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of magazine kept comics alive before the 20th century?
(a) American writing
(b) British caricature
(c) French art
(d) German cartoon

2. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Marshall McLuhan
(b) Herge
(c) Osamu Tezuka
(d) Jack Kirby

3. What genre cannot exist in comics?
(a) None of the above
(b) Epic poetry
(c) Biography
(d) Satire

4. How are Egyptian paintings read?
(a) Left to right
(b) Up to down
(c) Right to left
(d) Zig-zag

5. What was the name of Max Ernst's surreal plate sequence?
(a) Graphic Novel
(b) Collage Novel
(c) Woodcut Novels
(d) Carved Novel

Short Answer Questions

1. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?

2. When and where did the author think comics originated?

3. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"

4. Who does the author say is the father of modern comics?

5. What symbol does the author use to demonstrate the universality of cartoon imagery?

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