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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?
(a) Kirby
(b) Jules Feiffer
(c) Spiegelman
(d) Jose Munoz

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

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

5. What combination has pictures that illustrate but don't significantly add to a largely complete text?
(a) Additive
(b) Word-specific
(c) Picture-specific
(d) Duo-specific

6. Words and pictures have historically been thought of as base or simplistic. As a result of this mindset, current works of words and pictures have been base and simplistic. This is an example of what psychological phenomenon?
(a) Self-fulfilling prophecy
(b) Ecological fallacy
(c) Learned helplessness
(d) Confirmation bias

7. Who said, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible?"
(a) French poet Baudelaire
(b) Richard Wagner
(c) Paul Klee
(d) Wassily Kandinsky

8. In what year were the three additive primaries isolated?
(a) 1945
(b) 1861
(c) 1776
(d) 1612

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

10. What step constructs the work by applying skills, practical knowledge, invention, and problem-solving?
(a) Idiom
(b) Form
(c) Structure
(d) Craft

11. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-expression and communication?
(a) Photography
(b) None of these
(c) Marionettes
(d) Comics

12. Which style of painting was an honest expression of the internal turmoil of artists?
(a) Expressionism
(b) Art deco
(c) Minimalism
(d) Impressionism

13. 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) profitable, kind attitude
(d) bleak, neutral attitude

14. The order and emphasis of which two steps demonstrates the most dramatic difference?
(a) Idiom and idea/purpose
(b) Form and idea/purpose
(c) Idiom and Form
(d) Form and structure

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?

2. What color technique can be used to add depth?

3. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects

4. What step is the genre or school of art to which the work belongs?

5. Which of the following is NOT a way to vary word balloons?

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