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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Show and Tell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What combination has both words and pictures that send the same message?
(a) Montage
(b) Word-specific
(c) Duo-specific
(d) Picture-specific

2. What is another word for motion lines?
(a) Curlicues
(b) Zip-ribbons
(c) Zip-buttons
(d) Swoosh signs

3. Which comic artist introduced the storytelling techniques used in most mainstream comics?
(a) Charles Schultz
(b) Stan Lee
(c) Mary Fleener
(d) Jack Kirby

4. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?
(a) Duo-specific
(b) Word-specific
(c) Parallel
(d) Picture-specific

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What object is painted in "The Treachery of Images?"

2. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?

3. Most Japanese comics first appear published in __________________.

4. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.

5. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.

(see the answer key)

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