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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?
(a) Jules Feiffer
(b) Jose Munoz
(c) Kirby
(d) Spiegelman

2. Which of the following is NOT a way to vary word balloons?
(a) All of the above
(b) Lettering style
(c) Shape
(d) Content

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

4. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects
(a) shape
(b) size
(c) action
(d) purpose

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

6. What drawing style did Jooste Swarte use to depict cool sophistication and irony?
(a) Large gutters and thin uneven lines
(b) Thick black lines
(c) Polite jagged lines
(d) Crisp elegant lines and jazzy designs

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

8. The four color process on better paper created what kind of results?
(a) Stunning
(b) Garish
(c) Neutral
(d) Confusing

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

10. What step determines whether the art will be a book, a sculpture or a song?
(a) Surface
(b) Structure
(c) Idea/Purpose
(d) Form

11. The masters of flat-color comics are also masters of what?
(a) Purpose and surface
(b) Shading and structure
(c) Idiom and meaning
(d) Form and composition

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

13. Who was the creator of Uncle $crooge?
(a) R. Crumb
(b) Krystine Kryttre
(c) Chester Gould
(d) Carl Park

14. In black and white, the ideas ______ the art are communicated more ______.
(a) in front of; directly
(b) behind; indirectly
(c) in front of; indirectly
(d) behind; directly

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Flat color can make shapes, figures and backgrounds more ________.

2. Aside from the central figure in an image, where else can emotion be depicted?

3. What step finishes the first superficial exposure to the work?

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

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

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