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

2. Which of the following is NOT an example of possible primitive art?

3. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.

4. Which of the following is NOT an additive primary?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was the four-color process created?

5. Describe the origin of words.

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

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

8. What is synaesthetics?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

The author notes that comics are not the hybrid of graphics and words. What do you think of this statement? Are comics their own entity? Or do they tend to fall into one category more than the other? Explain your answer

Essay Topic 3

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?

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