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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. Which of the following contributed to the shift in resemblance towards meaning in art?
(a) All of the these
(b) Dada
(c) Futurism
(d) Expressionism

2. Besides sound, which of the following can represent a span of time in a single panel ?
(a) Borderless panels
(b) Silent captions
(c) Motion lines
(d) Wider gutters

3. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.
(a) illusion of time and motion
(b) several motions in time
(c) single moment in time
(d) multiple moments in time

4. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Herges' style is typically comprised of __________________.
(a) icon and language
(b) icon and reality
(c) meaning and icon
(d) reality and language

5. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"
(a) Pictographs
(b) Words
(c) Ideas
(d) Movies

Short Answer Questions

1. In the time after printing was invented, when words and pictures appeared together, how were they combined?

2. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.

3. What panel-to-panel transition requires the least amount of closure?

4. When does the author begin practicing to be a comics artist?

5. The four color process on better paper created what kind of results?

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