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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of combination uses words and pictures on separate courses with no intersection?
(a) Montage
(b) Additive
(c) Parallel
(d) Duo-Specific

2. What color of light is created by adding all three additive primaries?
(a) Cyan
(b) White
(c) Black
(d) Magenta

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

4. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Apple
(b) Banana
(c) Peach
(d) Orange

5. Which of the following is NOT listed as a flat-color master?
(a) Cole
(b) Barks
(c) McCay
(d) Masereel

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

7. Aside from the central figure in an image, where else can emotion be depicted?
(a) Silent caption
(b) Background
(c) Gutters
(d) Foreground

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

9. Which of the following is NOT an example of possible primitive art?
(a) Beating a pair of stones together
(b) Drawing lines in the dirt with a stick
(c) Kicking and moving arms
(d) Running from a sabertooth tiger

10. In the time after printing was invented, when words and pictures appeared together, how were they combined?
(a) Words and pictures co-mingled.
(b) Pictures always appeared larger.
(c) Words and pictures stayed separate.
(d) Words always appeared larger.

11. Who was the creator of Uncle $crooge?
(a) Carl Park
(b) Chester Gould
(c) R. Crumb
(d) Krystine Kryttre

12. The masters of flat-color comics are also masters of what?
(a) Idiom and meaning
(b) Shading and structure
(c) Form and composition
(d) Purpose and surface

13. In the structure of a comic, where can senses and emotions be portrayed?
(a) Neither between nor within panels
(b) Between panels
(c) Within panels
(d) Both between and within panels

14. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?
(a) Craft
(b) Idiom
(c) Idea/Purpose
(d) Structure

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?

2. What combination has pictures that illustrate but don't significantly add to a largely complete text?

3. In the time after the printing press, which art form was obsessed with resemblance, light and color?

4. What is the most common type of combination where words and pictures go hand in hand to convey an idea that neither could convey alone?

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

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