View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT a way to vary word balloons?

3. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?

4. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?

5. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is synaesthetics?

3. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

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

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

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

7. What are the advantages of color in comics?

8. Describe the origin of words.

9. Describe the process of creating art using the six-step path.

10. Why was the four-color process created?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In aspect-to-aspect transitions, McCloud says that nothing "happens." Is presenting different aspects of a place important to storytelling? Why or why not? Do you think McCloud is accurate in saying that this kind of transition does not move the narrative along?

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. Do you think this is a good definition of art? Can you think of how art could be motivated by survival or reproduction?

Essay Topic 3

McCloud writes that when he was a child, he believed that the world ceased to exist unless he was present. As he grew older, he began filling in gaps with assumptions in order to get closure. What are strategies and evidence we use to convince ourselves of the existence of things we have not experienced first hand? To test these definitions, consider whether they would stand up to the question of whether extraterrestrial life exists.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 733 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample