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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 is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?
(a) Dementia
(b) Closure
(c) Fragmentation
(d) Gestalt

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

3. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?
(a) Interdependent combination of words and pictures
(b) Panel borders
(c) All of the above
(d) Cartooning

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

5. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."
(a) vessel
(b) cartoon
(c) message
(d) content

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.

3. Who is the 44th comic artist listed in the triangle?

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

5. How are Egyptian paintings read?

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