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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 did Eisner call a desperation device?
(a) Word balloon
(b) Aspect-to-aspect
(c) Sound effects
(d) Motion line

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

3. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a storyteller who says something through comics and controlling their medium?
(a) Barks
(b) Schulz
(c) All of these
(d) Herge

4. Comics printing was superior on which continent?
(a) Asia
(b) North America
(c) Europe
(d) Africa

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of comics has been especially sensitive to changes in technology?

2. Words and pictures have historically been thought of as base or simplistic. As a result of this mindset, current works of words and pictures have been base and simplistic. This is an example of what psychological phenomenon?

3. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?

4. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.

5. Which of the following activity does not grow out of basic human instincts?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was one result of the color printing used for superheroes?

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

9. Why was the four-color process created?

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

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