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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. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) Any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea
(b) A representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred
(c) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
(d) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing

2. Due to the negative connotation of the word "comics," many comics artists have preferred to be known as ________________________.
(a) All of the above
(b) Commercial artists
(c) Illustrators
(d) Cartoonists

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

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

5. What transition bypasses time and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of the same place, idea or mood?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Moment-to-moment
(c) Action-to-action
(d) Aspect-to-aspect

Short Answer Questions

1. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.

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

3. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Mary Fleener's style is NOT typically comprised of ________.

4. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

5. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?

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