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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the time after the printing press, which art form was obsessed with resemblance, light and color?
(a) Spoken word
(b) Written word
(c) Visual arts
(d) Music

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

3. Which of the following activity does not grow out of basic human instincts?
(a) fight or flight
(b) art
(c) reproduction
(d) survival

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

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

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

7. Which of the following is a use of color in comics?
(a) To add depth
(b) All of these
(c) To express a mood
(d) To create a sensation

8. Pictures and words should have what kind of relationship?
(a) Unequal
(b) Domineering
(c) Subversive
(d) Partnership

9. What color technique can be used to add depth?
(a) modelling only
(b) tones and modelling
(c) tones only
(d) neither tones nor modelling

10. The mixing of words and pictures is more _______ than _______.
(a) psychology; science
(b) mathematics; alchemy
(c) alchemy; science
(d) mathematics; psychology

11. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?
(a) Adolescents
(b) Adults
(c) Children
(d) Elders

12. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a pioneer or revolutionary whose art became the purpose?
(a) Herriman
(b) Spiegelman
(c) McCay
(d) All of these

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

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

15. What is the core of a work of art?
(a) None of these
(b) Structure
(c) Idiom
(d) Craft

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?

3. Which of the following artists was NOT known for a more subjective palette?

4. What step puts it all together - edits the work for content, arrangement and composition?

5. In the structure of a comic, where can senses and emotions be portrayed?

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