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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. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?
(a) Marriage
(b) Consolidation
(c) Phenomenology
(d) Synaesthetics

2. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?
(a) Parallel
(b) Duo-specific
(c) Picture-specific
(d) Word-specific

3. In black and white, the ideas ______ the art are communicated more ______.
(a) in front of; indirectly
(b) in front of; directly
(c) behind; directly
(d) behind; indirectly

4. Who drew Dick Tracy?
(a) R. Crumb
(b) Krystine Kryttre
(c) Chester Gould
(d) Carl Bark

5. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?
(a) Spiegelman
(b) Jose Munoz
(c) Jules Feiffer
(d) Kirby

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The four color process on better paper created what kind of results?

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

4. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?

5. The order and emphasis of which two steps demonstrates the most dramatic difference?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the advantages of color in comics?

2. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

3. How can a word balloon vary?

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

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

6. What is synaesthetics?

7. How does McCloud feel about color and comics?

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

9. Describe the origin of words.

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

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