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

2. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) capitalization
(b) speech
(c) punctuation
(d) grammar

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

4. McCloud notes that we perceive the world as ______ through the experience of our senses, even though our senses can only reveal a _______ world.
(a) incomplete; whole
(b) whole; fragmented
(c) whole; distrustful
(d) incomplete; stable

5. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.
(a) divisive; multiplicative
(b) subtractive; additive
(c) humorous; generous
(d) meaningless; abstract

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-expression and communication?

2. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?

3. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?

4. Which country's artists widely adopted photographic trickery such as blurring and streaking soon after its inception?

5. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

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