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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Apple
(b) Peach
(c) Orange
(d) Banana

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

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

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

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

7. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?
(a) Idea/Purpose
(b) Structure
(c) Craft
(d) Idiom

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

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

10. What did Eisner call a desperation device?
(a) Word balloon
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Motion line
(d) Sound effects

11. Aside from the central figure in an image, where else can emotion be depicted?
(a) Foreground
(b) Gutters
(c) Background
(d) Silent caption

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

13. The pursuit of truth can be seen as the foundation of which of the following?
(a) All of these
(b) Philosophy
(c) Language
(d) Science

14. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.
(a) profitable, kind attitude
(b) bleak, neutral attitude
(c) optimistic, dramatic attitude
(d) grim, deadly attitude

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of comics has been especially sensitive to changes in technology?

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

3. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?

4. Which of the following is NOT an additive primary?

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

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