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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 was the title of the sequel to "A Harlot's Progress?"
(a) "A Piper's Progress"
(b) "A King's Progress"
(c) "A Rake's Progress"
(d) "A Pauper's Progress"

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

3. Comic panels break up which of the following?
(a) Time and space
(b) Sound and movement
(c) Space and consistency
(d) Time and sound

4. Which of the following is NOT an American comic artist that uses the style of creating one set of lines to see and another to be?
(a) Tom King
(b) Dave Sim and Derhard
(c) Jaime Hernandez
(d) Carl Barks

5. "To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to ___________."
(a) hell
(b) be consigned to oblivion
(c) immortality
(d) a thousand deaths

Short Answer Questions

1. Which pair of words does not relate to each other, in terms of comic style?

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

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

4. Which of the following can lengthen the pause between panels?

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

(see the answer key)

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