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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 combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?

2. The standard ______ color process was introduced to help control color costs and streamline the process.

3. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?

4. Which of the following activity does not grow out of basic human instincts?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

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

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

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

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

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

7. In panels rich with images, why would an artist add words?

8. Why was the four-color process created?

9. What are the advantages of color in comics?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eastern and Western approaches to art differ. In graphic arts, for example, Western art often focuses attention to foreground objects only while Eastern art emphasizes both the foreground and the background of negative space. Argue the merits of shortcomings of each approach.

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

In comics, a great deal of the storytelling occurs between the panels and the reader must use his/her imagination to tell the story. Is McCloud accurate in saying that comics requires more reader participation than any other artform? Why or why not?

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