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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. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?
(a) Idols
(b) Pictorial
(c) Non-pictorial
(d) Saints

2. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?
(a) Live-action movies
(b) Hieroglyphics
(c) Diagrams
(d) Single-panel cartoons

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

4. What transition features a single subject in distinct progressions?
(a) Subject-to-subject
(b) Action-to-action
(c) Aspect-to-aspect
(d) Moment-to-moment

5. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Moment-to-moment
(b) Scene-to-scene
(c) Subject-to-subject
(d) Action-to-action

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following icons are fluid and variable in how realistic they are?

2. What transition offers no logical relationship between panels?

3. Which of the following is an assumption that comics artists make about the reader?

4. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?

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

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