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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. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects

2. What Scottish physicist isolated the three additive primaries?

3. What combination has words that amplify or elaborate on an image, or vice versa?

4. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?

5. What color of light is created by adding all three additive primaries?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is synaesthetics?

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

4. Describe the origin of words.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

McCloud notes that in Eastern art, elements omitted from a work of art are just as important was the work that has been explicitly included. Do you think that missing elements, such as negative space in an image, or silence in a melody, are an important part of art? Explain your answer.

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