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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 of the following is a use of color in comics?
(a) To add depth
(b) All of these
(c) To express a mood
(d) To create a sensation

2. The standard ______ color process was introduced to help control color costs and streamline the process.
(a) Nine
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Five

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

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

5. After impressionism, art experienced a shift away from _______ and toward _______.
(a) picture plane; meaning
(b) picture plane; resemblance
(c) meaning; picture plane
(d) resemblance; meaning

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT an example of possible primitive art?

2. Which of the following contributed to the shift in resemblance towards meaning in art?

3. The masters of flat-color comics are also masters of what?

4. The mixing of words and pictures is more _______ than _______.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the difference between the additive primaries and the subtractive primaries.

3. How does McCloud feel about color and comics?

4. In panels rich with images, why would an artist add words?

5. Why was the four-color process created?

6. What are the advantages of color in comics?

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

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

9. What is an advantage of combining words and pictures together, as in comics?

10. Why do people think words and pictures together is more simplistic than either art individually?

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