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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Putting It All Together.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?
(a) Gestalt
(b) Closure
(c) Fragmentation
(d) Dementia

2. What is the most common type of combination where words and pictures go hand in hand to convey an idea that neither could convey alone?
(a) Duo-specific
(b) Parallel
(c) Additive
(d) Inter-dependent

3. Media grows out of our inability to communicate from _______ to ________.
(a) eye; ear
(b) mouth; ear
(c) mind; mind
(d) year; year

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

5. Besides sound, which of the following can represent a span of time in a single panel ?
(a) Wider gutters
(b) Borderless panels
(c) Silent captions
(d) Motion lines

Short Answer Questions

1. Pictures and words should have what kind of relationship?

2. What was the title of the sequel to "A Harlot's Progress?"

3. Herge's Tintin was characterized by very iconic characters with unusually realistic backgrounds. This style is called _______.

4. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

5. Which of the following is NOT an American comic artist that uses the style of creating one set of lines to see and another to be?

(see the answer key)

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