View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Herge's Tintin was characterized by very iconic characters with unusually realistic backgrounds. This style is called _______.
(a) paneled
(b) inked
(c) bold-brushed
(d) clear-line

2. What is the space between comic panels called?
(a) The frame
(b) The jump
(c) The gutter
(d) The ditch

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

4. 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) "He hit me!"
(d) "His car hit me!"

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

6. 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 _______.
(a) panels
(b) cartoons
(c) gutters
(d) comics

7. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.
(a) single moment in time
(b) several motions in time
(c) illusion of time and motion
(d) multiple moments in time

8. What transition requires deductive reasoning and transports the reader across significant distances of time and space?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Subject-to-subject
(d) Moment-to-moment

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

10. How long is the screenfold of 8-Deer "Tiger's-Claw" that was discovered by Cortes around 1519?
(a) 36 meters
(b) 36 yards
(c) 36 inches
(d) 36 foot

11. What object is painted in "The Treachery of Images?"
(a) A drum
(b) A flute
(c) A spoon
(d) A pipe

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

13. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?
(a) Interdependent combination of words and pictures
(b) Panel borders
(c) All of the above
(d) Cartooning

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

15. What transition features a single subject in distinct progressions?
(a) Subject-to-subject
(b) Moment-to-moment
(c) Aspect-to-aspect
(d) Action-to-action

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What determines the duration of time and dimensions of space in a panel?

3. What was the name of Max Ernst's surreal plate sequence?

4. When reading comics, how many senses are used between panels?

5. Who was the woodcut artist known for his silent "Woodcut Novels" of fables?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 446 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample