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

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

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

4. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?
(a) Picture-specific
(b) Duo-specific
(c) Word-specific
(d) Parallel

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

6. Which of the following is NOT an example of possible primitive art?
(a) Drawing lines in the dirt with a stick
(b) Kicking and moving arms
(c) Running from a sabertooth tiger
(d) Beating a pair of stones together

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

8. Which artist incorporated neurotic quill-lines into his/her work?
(a) Krystine Kryttre
(b) R. Crumb
(c) Carl Bark
(d) Chester Gould

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

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

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

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

13. Which of the following contributed to the shift in resemblance towards meaning in art?
(a) Futurism
(b) Expressionism
(c) All of the these
(d) Dada

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Comics printing was superior on which continent?

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

3. What combination has words that amplify or elaborate on an image, or vice versa?

4. The mixing of words and pictures is more _______ than _______.

5. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?

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