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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. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?

2. What step determines whether the art will be a book, a sculpture or a song?

3. Which artist incorporated neurotic quill-lines into his/her work?

4. What drawing style did Jooste Swarte use to depict cool sophistication and irony?

5. What is the core of a work of art?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the four-color process created?

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

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

4. How can a word balloon vary?

5. What happened after the birth of Expressionism?

6. How does McCloud feel about color and comics?

7. How can backgrounds indicate invisible ideas such as emotions?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

McCloud explains how you introduce time in comics by way of the depiction of time and the perception of time. Compare and contrast the two strategies. Does a preponderance of one or the other affect the end outcome?

Essay Topic 2

Paul Klee, a painter, teacher and cartoonist noted that, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." What does he mean by this. Is he right? Present your case.

Essay Topic 3

McCloud notes that "We see ourselves in everything. We assign identities and emotions where none exist. And we make the world over in our image." Personification is a literary device that demonstrates McCloud's statement. Think of a time where you personified an inanimate object or abstract notion. What was it? What human attributes did you give to it?

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