View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?
(a) Meta panels.
(b) Alpha panels.
(c) Beta panels.
(d) Gamma panels.

2. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?
(a) Keep him or her at bay.
(b) Show the audience a better picture.
(c) Pull him or her in.
(d) Explain the storyline more clearly.

3. What must convey both time and emotion, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Time and emotion.
(b) Time and travel.
(c) Emotion and Instinct.
(d) Thought and emotion.

4. In what vocabulary are body and gestures and postures stored?
(a) Morphological vocabulary.
(b) Non-verbal vocabulary.
(c) Syntactic vocabulary.
(d) Auditory vocabulary.

5. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?
(a) Character development.
(b) Spacing.
(c) Blocking.
(d) Timing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do different renderings require from the viewer?

2. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

3. How do comics form a language?

4. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

5. Why is time harder to measure in comics?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 216 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample