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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?
(a) So the reader understands the entirety of the piece.
(b) So communication can occur.
(c) So the artist can get paid.
(d) So the panels are read correctly.

2. What can happen after letters in comics are devised from familiar objects?
(a) They are reduced.
(b) They function verbally.
(c) They are abstracted.
(d) They become concrete.

3. How can a panel be diagrammed?
(a) Like a sentence.
(b) Like a word.
(c) Like a railroad track.
(d) Like a song lyric.

4. Does this book suggest the structures of illustration and of prose are similar?
(a) The article does not mention any similarity.
(b) Yes.
(c) The article says illustration has no structure.
(d) They are profoundly different.

5. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?
(a) The strained context of the image.
(b) The speed of the action.
(c) The fluid lines of the image.
(d) The proximity of the action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stories can be told through what alone?

2. How did comics begin?

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

4. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?

5. What did comics evolve into?

(see the answer key)

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