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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) Duo-specific
(b) Word-specific
(c) Picture-specific
(d) Montage

2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?
(a) Animation
(b) Intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer
(c) In deliberate sequence
(d) Juxtaposed pictorial and other images

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

4. Within a comic storyline, what is the amount of time that passes from one panel to the next?
(a) One day
(b) Varies
(c) One second
(d) One minute

5. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?
(a) Kirby
(b) Jules Feiffer
(c) Jose Munoz
(d) Spiegelman

Short Answer Questions

1. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.

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

3. How long is the screenfold of 8-Deer "Tiger's-Claw" that was discovered by Cortes around 1519?

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

5. What is the most common type of combination where words and pictures go hand in hand to convey an idea that neither could convey alone?

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