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Understanding Comics Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?
(a) Fragmentation
(b) Dementia
(c) Closure
(d) Gestalt

2. In a single image, what can you use to add words without introducing time?
(a) One-word reply
(b) Dialogue bubbles
(c) Silent captions
(d) Sound exclamations

3. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Jack Kirby
(b) Osamu Tezuka
(c) Marshall McLuhan
(d) Herge

4. Pictures are ______ information. Writing is _______ information.
(a) perceived; perceived
(b) received; perceived
(c) received; received
(d) perceived; received

5. What object is painted in "The Treachery of Images?"
(a) A flute
(b) A pipe
(c) A drum
(d) A spoon

Short Answer Questions

1. This effect of contrasting characters and backgrounds is used by which of the following?

2. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?

3. What techniques can be used to create timelessness?

4. Who was the first artist to present specific motions in a panel-to-panel form?

5. Panel shapes affect which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Scott McCloud the ultimate authority of comics?

2. What are different ways to portray motion within panels?

3. How are faces and figures typically drawn in comics? What about backgrounds and landscapes?

4. Describe what cartooning style is.

5. How do words introduce time into a single frame?

6. Describe the author's first impressions of comics as a child.

7. How could an artist lengthen a pause in the conversation between two characters?

8. How do Japanese comics physically differ from Western comics?

9. How do people commit closure in electronic media such as a a film?

10. Why is "juxtaposed static images in deliberate sequence" not a thorough definition of comics?

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