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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. Which artist was the first to depict motion by using a single line?
(a) Tezuka
(b) Herge
(c) Duchamp
(d) Topffer

2. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."
(a) content
(b) vessel
(c) message
(d) cartoon

3. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Osamu Tezuka
(b) Herge
(c) Jack Kirby
(d) Marshall McLuhan

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. "To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to ___________."

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

3. Panel shapes affect which of the following?

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

5. What symbol does the author use to demonstrate the universality of cartoon imagery?

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