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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. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.
(a) single moment in time
(b) multiple moments in time
(c) several motions in time
(d) illusion of time and motion

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

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

4. What was the title of the sequel to "A Harlot's Progress?"
(a) "A Pauper's Progress"
(b) "A Piper's Progress"
(c) "A King's Progress"
(d) "A Rake's Progress"

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?

2. In a panel with a lot of action, such as the one on page 95, each figure is arranged sequentially and the audience will read them left to right. This could be argued as fitting the definition of _______.

3. Most Japanese comics first appear published in __________________.

4. Which of the following is an assumption that comics artists make about the reader?

5. The author describes comics as a ______, or a medium which "can hold any number of ideas and images."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Is Scott McCloud the ultimate authority of comics?

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

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

8. What is a Japanese technique usied in cartooning?

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

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

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