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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. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?
(a) G. Hernandez
(b) Spiegelman
(c) Osamu Tezuka
(d) Jack Kirby

2. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.
(a) humorous; generous
(b) subtractive; additive
(c) divisive; multiplicative
(d) meaningless; abstract

3. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) Any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea
(b) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
(c) A representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred
(d) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing

4. Which of the following is true?
(a) Animation is spatially juxtaposed; comics are sequential in time.
(b) Animation is sequential in time; comics are spatially juxtaposed.
(c) Animation is sequential in time; comics are sequential in time.
(d) Animation is spatially juxtaposed; comics are spatially juxtaposed.

5. What was the name of Max Ernst's surreal plate sequence?
(a) Graphic Novel
(b) Woodcut Novels
(c) Collage Novel
(d) Carved Novel

Short Answer Questions

1. Because artists don't expect audiences to identify with backgrounds such as brick walls or landscapes, backgrounds tend to be more ______ than the story's characters.

2. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?

3. Which of the following is NOT an American comic artist that uses the style of creating one set of lines to see and another to be?

4. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.

5. Which artist started the trend to incorporate photographic streaking to depict motion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Scott McCloud the ultimate authority of comics?

2. How can an artist depict time in comics?

3. For what do Japanese mainstream comics use aspect-to-aspect transitions?

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

5. According to McCloud, are comics a hybrid of graphic arts and prose fiction?

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

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

8. Is there a difference between an animated movie and comics?

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

10. What is a Japanese technique usied in cartooning?

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