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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, A Word about Color.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of combination uses words and pictures on separate courses with no intersection?
(a) Additive
(b) Parallel
(c) Montage
(d) Duo-Specific

2. How are Egyptian paintings read?
(a) Right to left
(b) Left to right
(c) Up to down
(d) Zig-zag

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

4. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?
(a) Non-pictorial
(b) Idols
(c) Pictorial
(d) Saints

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of combination treats words as integral parts of the picture?

2. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

3. Which pair of words does not relate to each other, in terms of comic style?

4. Which of the following activity does not grow out of basic human instincts?

5. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?

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