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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Duo-specific
(b) Additive
(c) Parallel
(d) Inter-dependent

2. Which of the following is not a benefit from non-basic human activities such as art?
(a) Leads to useful discoveries
(b) All of these
(c) Provides exercise for minds and bodies
(d) Provides emotional outlets

3. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?
(a) Robert Crumb
(b) Rory Hayes
(c) Charles Schultz
(d) Carl Bark

4. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?
(a) Lord Kelvin
(b) Louis Ducos Du Hauron
(c) Alexander Graham Bell
(d) Sir James Clerk

5. After impressionism, art experienced a shift away from _______ and toward _______.
(a) picture plane; meaning
(b) picture plane; resemblance
(c) meaning; picture plane
(d) resemblance; meaning

6. The standard ______ color process was introduced to help control color costs and streamline the process.
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Nine

7. What Scottish physicist isolated the three additive primaries?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Louis Ducos Du Hauron
(c) Sir James Clerk
(d) Lord Kelvin

8. The pursuit of truth can be seen as the foundation of which of the following?
(a) Philosophy
(b) Science
(c) Language
(d) All of these

9. Whose artwork incorporated mad lines to create crazy toddler?
(a) R. Crumb
(b) Chester Gould
(c) Krystine Kryttre
(d) Carl Bark

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

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

12. What step is the genre or school of art to which the work belongs?
(a) Idiom
(b) Idea/Purpose
(c) Structure
(d) Craft

13. Which color is NOT a subtractive primary?
(a) Magenta
(b) Cyan
(c) Black
(d) Yellow

14. What did Eisner call a desperation device?
(a) Word balloon
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Motion line
(d) Sound effects

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?

2. Which of the following is a use of color in comics?

3. Which is true of most written languages?

4. What step constructs the work by applying skills, practical knowledge, invention, and problem-solving?

5. The four color process on better paper created what kind of results?

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