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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. McCloud notes that we perceive the world as ______ through the experience of our senses, even though our senses can only reveal a _______ world.
(a) incomplete; stable
(b) whole; fragmented
(c) incomplete; whole
(d) whole; distrustful

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

3. Besides sound, which of the following can represent a span of time in a single panel ?
(a) Motion lines
(b) Silent captions
(c) Borderless panels
(d) Wider gutters

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

5. Which artist started the trend to incorporate photographic streaking to depict motion?
(a) Gene Colan
(b) Bill Everett
(c) Jack Kirby
(d) Gene Mager

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

7. Who was the first artist to present specific motions in a panel-to-panel form?
(a) Topffer
(b) Herge
(c) Tezuka
(d) Duchamp

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

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

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

11. Who is the 44th comic artist listed in the triangle?
(a) Lynda Barry
(b) Craig Russell
(c) Mary Fleener
(d) Gilbert Hernandez

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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 _______.

4. What panel-to-panel transition requires the least amount of closure?

5. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.

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