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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Time Frames.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Using the example of driving to illustrate non-visual awareness, what is the likely response of the driver of the vehicle being struck if one car hits another?
(a) "His car hit me!"
(b) "His car hit my car!"
(c) "He hit my car!"
(d) "He hit me!"

3. In a panel with a lot of action, such as the one on page 95, each figure is arranged sequentially and the audience will read them left to right. This could be argued as fitting the definition of _______.
(a) comics
(b) panels
(c) gutters
(d) cartoons

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

5. Widening the shape of a panel can affect the _______ of time.
(a) characterization
(b) depiction
(c) perception
(d) romanticization

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?

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