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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 is true of most written languages?
(a) They sound how they look.
(b) They bear traces of their ancient pictorial heritage (e.g. Chinese).
(c) They represent sound only and lose resemblance to the visible world.
(d) They are not abstract.

2. What color of light is created by adding all three additive primaries?
(a) Black
(b) Cyan
(c) White
(d) Magenta

3. Pictures and words should have what kind of relationship?
(a) Unequal
(b) Subversive
(c) Domineering
(d) Partnership

4. What step finishes the first superficial exposure to the work?
(a) Form
(b) Idiom
(c) Structure
(d) Surface

5. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?
(a) Roman rulers
(b) Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia
(c) Egyptian accountants
(d) Ancient Greeks

Short Answer Questions

1. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects

2. What step is the genre or school of art to which the work belongs?

3. Which of the following is NOT an additive primary?

4. In the time after the printing press, which art form was obsessed with resemblance, light and color?

5. The pursuit of truth can be seen as the foundation of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

2. What problem results from people believing that comics is a new form of media?

3. Describe the typical artist who starts with an idea/purpose and then creates art.

4. How can a word balloon vary?

5. How can words and pictures together create a more meaningful message than each individually?

6. How does McCloud feel about color and comics?

7. Describe the typical artist who finds idea/purpose after creating art.

8. Describe the process of creating art using the six-step path.

9. What happened to comics after the invention of printing?

10. In Chapter 7, how does McCloud see, or define, art?

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