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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 artist started the trend to incorporate photographic streaking to depict motion?
(a) Bill Everett
(b) Jack Kirby
(c) Gene Mager
(d) Gene Colan

2. Comic panels break up which of the following?
(a) Time and space
(b) Sound and movement
(c) Space and consistency
(d) Time and sound

3. Which of the following is an assumption that comics artists make about the reader?
(a) They will like the story.
(b) They have read previous stories in the series.
(c) They read the panels in correct order.
(d) They read the comics in one sitting.

4. What type of magazine kept comics alive before the 20th century?
(a) German cartoon
(b) French art
(c) American writing
(d) British caricature

5. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?
(a) Max Ernst
(b) William Hogarth
(c) Lynd Ward
(d) Frans Masereel

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the space between comic panels called?

2. What is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?

3. What new law was created to protect Töpffer's new art form following the successful publication of "A Harlot's Progress" and its sequel?

4. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?

5. Due to the negative connotation of the word "comics," many comics artists have preferred to be known as ________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Scott McCloud the ultimate authority of comics?

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

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

4. Describe what cartooning style is.

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

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

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

8. Is a single image equivalent to a single instant in time?

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

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

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