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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new law was created to protect Töpffer's new art form following the successful publication of "A Harlot's Progress" and its sequel?
(a) Minimum wage
(b) Restraining order
(c) Copyright
(d) Income tax

2. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?
(a) Single-panel cartoons
(b) Live-action movies
(c) Hieroglyphics
(d) Diagrams

3. Which of the following is an assumption that comics artists make about the reader?
(a) They read the panels in correct order.
(b) They read the comics in one sitting.
(c) They will like the story.
(d) They have read previous stories in the series.

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

5. Because artists don't expect audiences to identify with backgrounds such as brick walls or landscapes, backgrounds tend to be more ______ than the story's characters.
(a) realistic
(b) non-existent
(c) simplified
(d) abstract

6. Using the example of driving to illustrate non-visual awareness, what is the likely response of the driver of the vehicle being struck if one car hits another?
(a) "His car hit my car!"
(b) "He hit my car!"
(c) "His car hit me!"
(d) "He hit me!"

7. Which country's artists widely adopted photographic trickery such as blurring and streaking soon after its inception?
(a) France
(b) Japan
(c) America
(d) England

8. Which comic artist introduced the storytelling techniques used in most mainstream comics?
(a) Jack Kirby
(b) Charles Schultz
(c) Stan Lee
(d) Mary Fleener

9. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?
(a) Map
(b) Picture Plane
(c) Language
(d) Reality

10. What was the title of the sequel to "A Harlot's Progress?"
(a) "A Piper's Progress"
(b) "A King's Progress"
(c) "A Rake's Progress"
(d) "A Pauper's Progress"

11. What panel-to-panel transition requires the least amount of closure?
(a) Aspect-to-aspect
(b) Non-sequitur
(c) Moment-to-moment
(d) Action-to-action

12. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.
(a) indirect
(b) logarithmic
(c) linear
(d) exponential

13. Which of the following icons are fluid and variable in how realistic they are?
(a) Non-pictorial
(b) Pictorial
(c) Saints
(d) Idols

14. What techniques can be used to create timelessness?
(a) A borderless panel
(b) Bleeding a panel
(c) All of the above
(d) Silent panel with no clues as to duration

15. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?
(a) Words
(b) Comics
(c) Sounds
(d) Numbers

Short Answer Questions

1. Comic panels break up which of the following?

2. In a single image, what can you use to add words without introducing time?

3. Japanese comics artists also drew more realistic characters to emphasize __________________________.

4. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.

5. Who does the author say is the father of modern comics?

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