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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

2. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?

3. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?

4. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?

5. Besides sound, which of the following can represent a span of time in a single panel ?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to McCloud, everything that people experience in life can be separated into which two realms?

2. What is McCloud's notion of the Picture Plane?

3. How do words introduce time into a single frame?

4. Is there a difference between an animated movie and comics?

5. What is the difference between the art form ("medium") and the content?

6. According to McCloud, why is closure important?

7. Does McCloud think that non-sequitur transitions are possible?

8. For what do Japanese mainstream comics use aspect-to-aspect transitions?

9. Why is "juxtaposed static images in deliberate sequence" not a thorough definition of comics?

10. In the panel with the basketball players, how could you add words while depicting one single moment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

McCloud notes that diagrams are comics, but they do not label themselves as such. How important are labels? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? How does the context that diagrams are presented in make them different from other comics?

Essay Topic 2

Art can be thought of as any human activity that doesn't grow out of either basic instinct of survival and reproduction. How do you define art? According to this definition, what are examples of what is and isn't art?

Essay Topic 3

New media is often judged by the standards of the old. Do you think these are appropriate standards? Why or why not?

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