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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. The order and emphasis of which two steps demonstrates the most dramatic difference?
(a) Idiom and Form
(b) Form and idea/purpose
(c) Idiom and idea/purpose
(d) Form and structure

2. 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?
(a) Jaime Hernandez
(b) Tom King
(c) Carl Barks
(d) Dave Sim and Derhard

3. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?
(a) William Hogarth
(b) Lynd Ward
(c) Frans Masereel
(d) Max Ernst

4. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?
(a) A form of amplification through simplification
(b) A form of amplification through complication
(c) A form of compression through complication
(d) A form of compression through simplification

5. What transition stays within a scene or idea and requires more closure from the reader in order to find the transition meaningful?
(a) Action-to-action
(b) Subject-to-subject
(c) Non-sequitur
(d) Scene-to-scene

Short Answer Questions

1. Which color is NOT a subtractive primary?

2. 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 _______.

3. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?

4. What genre cannot exist in comics?

5. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?

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