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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Learned helplessness
(c) Ecological fallacy
(d) Confirmation bias

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a storyteller who says something through comics and controlling their medium?
(a) Schulz
(b) All of these
(c) Herge
(d) Barks

15. Flat color can make shapes, figures and backgrounds more ________.
(a) boring
(b) subjective
(c) objective
(d) oppressive

Short Answer Questions

1. What color of light is created by adding all three additive primaries?

2. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?

3. What kind of combination treats words as integral parts of the picture?

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

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

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