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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is true of most written languages?
(a) They represent sound only and lose resemblance to the visible world.
(b) They are not abstract.
(c) They bear traces of their ancient pictorial heritage (e.g. Chinese).
(d) They sound how they look.

2. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.
(a) grim, deadly attitude
(b) optimistic, dramatic attitude
(c) bleak, neutral attitude
(d) profitable, kind attitude

3. What combination has words that amplify or elaborate on an image, or vice versa?
(a) Montage
(b) Inter-dependent
(c) Duo-specific
(d) Additive

4. What step determines whether the art will be a book, a sculpture or a song?
(a) Structure
(b) Surface
(c) Idea/Purpose
(d) Form

5. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?
(a) Ancient Greeks
(b) Roman rulers
(c) Egyptian accountants
(d) Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia

6. What combination has both words and pictures that send the same message?
(a) Word-specific
(b) Montage
(c) Duo-specific
(d) Picture-specific

7. Each new medium begins by imitating its _______.
(a) descendents
(b) predecessors
(c) patients
(d) successors

8. The creation of work in any medium will follow a certain path containing how many steps?
(a) Six
(b) Fifty
(c) Twenty-four
(d) Twelve

9. What kind of combination treats words as integral parts of the picture?
(a) Duo-specific
(b) Inter-dependent
(c) Montage
(d) Word specific

10. In black and white, the ideas ______ the art are communicated more ______.
(a) in front of; indirectly
(b) behind; indirectly
(c) behind; directly
(d) in front of; directly

11. What aspect of comics has been especially sensitive to changes in technology?
(a) Contents
(b) Color
(c) Artists
(d) Length

12. What drawing style did Jooste Swarte use to depict cool sophistication and irony?
(a) Crisp elegant lines and jazzy designs
(b) Large gutters and thin uneven lines
(c) Thick black lines
(d) Polite jagged lines

13. Which artist incorporated neurotic quill-lines into his/her work?
(a) Chester Gould
(b) R. Crumb
(c) Krystine Kryttre
(d) Carl Bark

14. Which of the following is NOT an additive primary?
(a) Blue
(b) Yellow
(c) Green
(d) Red

15. What step puts it all together - edits the work for content, arrangement and composition?
(a) Structure
(b) Craft
(c) Form
(d) Surface

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following activity does not grow out of basic human instincts?

2. After impressionism, art experienced a shift away from _______ and toward _______.

3. What did Eisner call a desperation device?

4. What kind of combination uses words and pictures on separate courses with no intersection?

5. The order and emphasis of which two steps demonstrates the most dramatic difference?

(see the answer keys)

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