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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Elements.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Framing.
(d) Sequence.

2. What long Spirit story does Eisner analyze in Chapter 3?
(a) Up and Out.
(b) Popfly.
(c) Strikeout.
(d) Foul Play.

3. What did comics evolve into?
(a) Graphic novels.
(b) Diatomes.
(c) Comic newspapers.
(d) Storybooks.

4. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?
(a) Sit quietly.
(b) View the action as presented.
(c) Press rewind and play buttons.
(d) Charge per viewing.

5. What do comics largely emulate?
(a) Real experience.
(b) Visual aesthetics.
(c) Angelic visions.
(d) Surrealist perspectives.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?

2. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?

3. How do comics form a language?

4. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?

5. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?

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