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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?
(a) Written word predates pictures.
(b) Pictures and spoken word developed simultaneously.
(c) Written word predate spoken word.
(d) Pictures predate written word.

3. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.
(a) intermediary
(b) interpreter
(c) instigator
(d) barrier

4. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?
(a) Marriage
(b) Phenomenology
(c) Consolidation
(d) Synaesthetics

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

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

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

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

9. Comics printing was superior on which continent?
(a) Asia
(b) Africa
(c) North America
(d) Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a pioneer or revolutionary whose art became the purpose?

3. Which of the following is NOT an example of possible primitive art?

4. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?

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

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