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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. McCloud notes that we perceive the world as ______ through the experience of our senses, even though our senses can only reveal a _______ world.
(a) incomplete; whole
(b) incomplete; stable
(c) whole; distrustful
(d) whole; fragmented

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

3. Which is an example of our ability to extend our identities into inanimate objects?
(a) Glass
(b) Crutches
(c) Utensils
(d) All of the above

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre cannot exist in comics?

2. Who was the woodcut artist known for his silent "Woodcut Novels" of fables?

3. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?

4. Who was the first artist to present specific motions in a panel-to-panel form?

5. Who is the 44th comic artist listed in the triangle?

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