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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. Comic readers are conditioned by real life and other media to expect a _______ progression in comics.
(a) indirect
(b) exponential
(c) logarithmic
(d) linear

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

3. Which artist was the first to depict motion by using a single line?
(a) Tezuka
(b) Herge
(c) Topffer
(d) Duchamp

4. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) grammar
(b) speech
(c) capitalization
(d) punctuation

5. Which comic artist introduced the storytelling techniques used in most mainstream comics?
(a) Jack Kirby
(b) Charles Schultz
(c) Mary Fleener
(d) Stan Lee

Short Answer Questions

1. What additional early examples of comics does the author mention but NOT cover?

2. How are Egyptian paintings read?

3. Which of the following icons are fluid and variable in how realistic they are?

4. What determines the duration of time and dimensions of space in a panel?

5. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a Japanese technique usied in cartooning?

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

3. What is the difference between the art form ("medium") and the content?

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

5. Does McCloud think single panels should be considered comic art?

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

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

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

9. In the panel with the basketball players, how could you add words while depicting one single moment?

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

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