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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. In a panel with a lot of action, such as the one on page 95, each figure is arranged sequentially and the audience will read them left to right. This could be argued as fitting the definition of _______.
(a) comics
(b) gutters
(c) cartoons
(d) panels

2. What step is the genre or school of art to which the work belongs?
(a) Structure
(b) Idea/Purpose
(c) Idiom
(d) Craft

3. Who was the creator of Uncle $crooge?
(a) Chester Gould
(b) Carl Park
(c) R. Crumb
(d) Krystine Kryttre

4. After impressionism, art experienced a shift away from _______ and toward _______.
(a) resemblance; meaning
(b) picture plane; resemblance
(c) picture plane; meaning
(d) meaning; picture plane

5. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a pioneer or revolutionary whose art became the purpose?
(a) All of these
(b) Herriman
(c) McCay
(d) Spiegelman

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What transition requires deductive reasoning and transports the reader across significant distances of time and space?

3. What new law was created to protect Töpffer's new art form following the successful publication of "A Harlot's Progress" and its sequel?

4. Who was the first artist to present specific motions in a panel-to-panel form?

5. What panel-to-panel transition requires the least amount of closure?

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