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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What transition offers no logical relationship between panels?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Action-to-action
(c) Non-sequitur
(d) Subject-to-subject

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

7. What transition bypasses time and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of the same place, idea or mood?
(a) Aspect-to-aspect
(b) Moment-to-moment
(c) Scene-to-scene
(d) Action-to-action

8. When does the author begin practicing to be a comics artist?
(a) After his dog dies
(b) During his first office job
(c) Since he could pick up a pencil
(d) In tenth grade

9. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?
(a) Pictorial
(b) Idols
(c) Non-pictorial
(d) Saints

10. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Jack Kirby
(b) Osamu Tezuka
(c) Marshall McLuhan
(d) Herge

11. Which artist was the first to depict motion by using a single line?
(a) Duchamp
(b) Tezuka
(c) Herge
(d) Topffer

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

13. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?
(a) Jack Kirby
(b) Osamu Tezuka
(c) G. Hernandez
(d) Spiegelman

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

15. 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) gutters
(b) comics
(c) cartoons
(d) panels

Short Answer Questions

1. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?

2. Which country's artists widely adopted photographic trickery such as blurring and streaking soon after its inception?

3. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

4. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.

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

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