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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. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.
(a) exponential
(b) linear
(c) indirect
(d) logarithmic

2. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?
(a) Lynd Ward
(b) Max Ernst
(c) Frans Masereel
(d) William Hogarth

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

4. Who said, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible?"
(a) French poet Baudelaire
(b) Wassily Kandinsky
(c) Paul Klee
(d) Richard Wagner

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?
(a) Duo-specific
(b) Inter-dependent
(c) Additive
(d) Parallel

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?

2. What additional early examples of comics does the author mention but NOT cover?

3. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.

4. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.

5. What drawing style did Jooste Swarte use to depict cool sophistication and irony?

(see the answer key)

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