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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. Using the example of driving to illustrate non-visual awareness, what is the likely response of the driver of the vehicle being struck if one car hits another?
(a) "He hit me!"
(b) "His car hit my car!"
(c) "His car hit me!"
(d) "He hit my car!"

2. What new law was created to protect Töpffer's new art form following the successful publication of "A Harlot's Progress" and its sequel?
(a) Copyright
(b) Income tax
(c) Minimum wage
(d) Restraining order

3. What is the most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Subject-to-subject
(b) Scene-to-scene
(c) Action-to-action
(d) Moment-to-moment

4. Who is the author of the book?
(a) Will Eisner
(b) Stan Lee
(c) Scott McCloud
(d) Rudolphe Töpffer

5. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"
(a) Words
(b) Ideas
(c) Movies
(d) Pictographs

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?

2. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.

3. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

4. Which of the following point in time of the panel is represented by where your eyes are focused?

5. Who does the author say is the father of modern comics?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a Japanese technique usied in cartooning?

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

3. According to McCloud, everything that people experience in life can be separated into which two realms?

4. How is the screenfold of 8-Deer "Tiger's Claw" considered a comic?

5. Why does the author introduce the Margritte painting, "The Treachery of Images"?

6. What is the difference between closure of electronic media and closure in comics?

7. According to McCloud, why is closure important?

8. What are the three most popular transitions in mainstream Western comics and why?

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

10. Give examples of the three different types of icons.

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