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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people learn to measure distance by?
(a) Nature and the Heavens.
(b) Circumference and Diameter.
(c) Optics and Illusion.
(d) Sight and Sound.

2. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?
(a) Twine.
(b) Quills.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Scripts.

3. How do comics form a language?
(a) By spontaneity.
(b) Through morphemes.
(c) Through content.
(d) By repetitiveness.

4. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Method.
(b) Identity.
(c) Construct.
(d) Symbol.

5. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.
(b) By using the spiral principle.
(c) By breaking the right-to-left convention.
(d) By breaking the left-to-right convention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?

2. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?

3. In a story by Eisner how does he make the text express the sentiment of a scene?

4. In the third example in a "Contract with God," the heavy lettering is above what creature?

5. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?

(see the answer key)

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