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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. The masters of flat-color comics are also masters of what?
(a) Shading and structure
(b) Idiom and meaning
(c) Purpose and surface
(d) Form and composition

2. What is another word for motion lines?
(a) Swoosh signs
(b) Zip-ribbons
(c) Zip-buttons
(d) Curlicues

3. This effect of contrasting characters and backgrounds is used by which of the following?
(a) Tintin
(b) Disney
(c) Jacques Tardi
(d) All of the following

4. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?
(a) Marriage
(b) Synaesthetics
(c) Phenomenology
(d) Consolidation

5. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing
(b) A representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred
(c) Any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea
(d) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a use of color in comics?

2. Each new medium begins by imitating its _______.

3. Which pair of words does not relate to each other, in terms of comic style?

4. Which of the following is not a benefit from non-basic human activities such as art?

5. What is the space between comic panels called?

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