View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pictures are ______ information. Writing is _______ information.
(a) received; received
(b) perceived; perceived
(c) received; perceived
(d) perceived; received

2. Who drew Dick Tracy?
(a) Carl Bark
(b) Krystine Kryttre
(c) R. Crumb
(d) Chester Gould

3. 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; stable
(b) whole; fragmented
(c) whole; distrustful
(d) incomplete; whole

4. Which artist started the trend to incorporate photographic streaking to depict motion?
(a) Bill Everett
(b) Jack Kirby
(c) Gene Colan
(d) Gene Mager

5. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?
(a) Underground and erotica comics
(b) Erotica and drama comics
(c) Underground and children's comics
(d) Superhero and children's comics

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is true of most written languages?

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

3. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?

4. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.

5. Comic panels break up which of the following?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 217 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample