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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Action-to-action
(b) Scene-to-scene
(c) Subject-to-subject
(d) Moment-to-moment

2. Within a comic storyline, what is the amount of time that passes from one panel to the next?
(a) Varies
(b) One day
(c) One second
(d) One minute

3. What is another word for motion lines?
(a) Swoosh signs
(b) Curlicues
(c) Zip-ribbons
(d) Zip-buttons

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

5. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) capitalization
(b) punctuation
(c) grammar
(d) speech

6. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.
(a) one
(b) six
(c) three
(d) five

7. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Mary Fleener's style is NOT typically comprised of ________.
(a) reality
(b) non-iconic content
(c) iconic content
(d) language

8. This effect of contrasting characters and backgrounds is used by which of the following?
(a) Disney
(b) Tintin
(c) Jacques Tardi
(d) All of the following

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

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

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

12. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing
(b) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
(c) Any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea
(d) A representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred

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

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

15. Which pair of words does not relate to each other, in terms of comic style?
(a) Objective; subjective
(b) Complex; simple
(c) Realistic; iconic
(d) Famous; anonymous

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol does the author use to demonstrate the universality of cartoon imagery?

2. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Herges' style is typically comprised of __________________.

3. What transition bypasses time and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of the same place, idea or mood?

4. When and where did the author think comics originated?

5. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?

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