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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. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?
(a) Kirby
(b) Jose Munoz
(c) Jules Feiffer
(d) Spiegelman

2. What genre cannot exist in comics?
(a) None of the above
(b) Biography
(c) Epic poetry
(d) Satire

3. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.
(a) barrier
(b) interpreter
(c) intermediary
(d) instigator

4. In a single image, what can you use to add words without introducing time?
(a) Silent captions
(b) One-word reply
(c) Dialogue bubbles
(d) Sound exclamations

5. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Apple
(b) Banana
(c) Peach
(d) Orange

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of magazine kept comics alive before the 20th century?

2. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"

3. Which color is NOT a subtractive primary?

4. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?

5. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.

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