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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. In the time after printing was invented, when words and pictures appeared together, how were they combined?
(a) Words and pictures co-mingled.
(b) Pictures always appeared larger.
(c) Words always appeared larger.
(d) Words and pictures stayed separate.

2. Which is true of most written languages?
(a) They are not abstract.
(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 sound how they look.

3. What combination has words that amplify or elaborate on an image, or vice versa?
(a) Duo-specific
(b) Additive
(c) Montage
(d) Inter-dependent

4. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Orange
(b) Banana
(c) Apple
(d) Peach

5. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?
(a) Sir James Clerk
(b) Alexander Graham Bell
(c) Louis Ducos Du Hauron
(d) Lord Kelvin

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-expression and communication?

2. What combination has pictures that illustrate but don't significantly add to a largely complete text?

3. Which style of painting was an honest expression of the internal turmoil of artists?

4. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?

5. Which of the following is NOT listed as a flat-color master?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can an artist depict emotion in a comic?

2. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What three aspects of art benefit humans from an evolutionary standpoint?

9. Does the six-step path need to be completed in a specific order?

10. Describe the origin of words.

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