3. What determines the duration of time and dimensions of space in a panel?
(a) The shape
(b) The size
(c) The contents
(d) The sequence

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

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

6. Most Japanese comics first appear published in __________________.
(a) thin publications
(b) parts
(c) manga magazines
(d) enormous anthology titles

7. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?
(a) A form of amplification through simplification
(b) A form of amplification through complication
(c) A form of compression through simplification
(d) A form of compression through complication

8. 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) gutters
(c) cartoons
(d) comics

9. Which of the following can lengthen the pause between panels?
(a) All of the above
(b) The number of panels
(c) The content of the panels
(d) The space between panels

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

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

12. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."
(a) cartoon
(b) vessel
(c) message
(d) content

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

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

15. 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) Dave Sim and Derhard
(c) Tom King
(d) Jaime Hernandez

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What object is painted in "The Treachery of Images?"

3. How long is the screenfold of 8-Deer "Tiger's-Claw" that was discovered by Cortes around 1519?

4. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?

5. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?

(see the answer keys)

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