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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 typically the second most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Action-to-action
(b) Scene-to-scene
(c) Subject-to-subject
(d) Moment-to-moment

2. Who first observed that people growing up in the late 20th century wanted roles more than goals?
(a) Dave McKean
(b) McLuhan
(c) Stan Lee
(d) Sergio Argonnes

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

4. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.
(a) the artist and the publisher
(b) the brand and the distributor
(c) the reader and the frame
(d) the creator and audience

5. What transition requires deductive reasoning and transports the reader across significant distances of time and space?
(a) Moment-to-moment
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Scene-to-scene
(d) Subject-to-subject

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What color of light is created by adding all three additive primaries?

4. What combination has words that amplify or elaborate on an image, or vice versa?

5. What aspect of comics has been especially sensitive to changes in technology?

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