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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. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?
(a) Roman rulers
(b) Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia
(c) Ancient Greeks
(d) Egyptian accountants

2. In what year were the three additive primaries isolated?
(a) 1612
(b) 1861
(c) 1945
(d) 1776

3. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?
(a) Sound effects
(b) Word balloon
(c) Motion line
(d) Aspect-to-aspect

4. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.
(a) optimistic, dramatic attitude
(b) profitable, kind attitude
(c) grim, deadly attitude
(d) bleak, neutral attitude

5. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects
(a) purpose
(b) size
(c) shape
(d) action

Short Answer Questions

1. Panel shapes affect which of the following?

2. In the time after the printing press, which art form was obsessed with resemblance, light and color?

3. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?

4. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Mary Fleener's style is NOT typically comprised of ________.

5. What transition features a single subject in distinct progressions?

(see the answer key)

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