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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 is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?
(a) Live-action movies
(b) Diagrams
(c) Single-panel cartoons
(d) Hieroglyphics

2. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?
(a) Words
(b) Numbers
(c) Comics
(d) Sounds

3. Who is the author of the book?
(a) Will Eisner
(b) Scott McCloud
(c) Stan Lee
(d) Rudolphe Töpffer

4. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Marshall McLuhan
(b) Herge
(c) Osamu Tezuka
(d) Jack Kirby

5. Each new medium begins by imitating its _______.
(a) successors
(b) patients
(c) descendents
(d) predecessors

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who first observed that people growing up in the late 20th century wanted roles more than goals?

3. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?

4. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?

5. What techniques can be used to create timelessness?

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