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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. How long is the tapestry detailing the Norman Conquest of England?
(a) 36 meters
(b) 12 yards
(c) 230 feet
(d) 100 feet

2. Pictures are ______ information. Writing is _______ information.
(a) received; received
(b) perceived; received
(c) perceived; perceived
(d) received; perceived

3. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?
(a) Map
(b) Reality
(c) Language
(d) Picture Plane

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Comic panels break up which of the following?

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

4. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?

5. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.

(see the answer key)

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