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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?
(a) Partly in Hebraic style.
(b) Partly in Yiddish.
(c) Partly in astrological charts.
(d) Partly in Celtic runes.

2. As artists tell stories to mass audiences, what do they use as means of arrangement?
(a) Boxes.
(b) Trapezoids.
(c) Triangles.
(d) Bubbles.

3. What kind of pictographs weld visual imagery and "uniform derivative" symbols?
(a) Asian.
(b) Georgian.
(c) Slavic.
(d) Atlantic.

4. What Spirit story written in 1947 mentions Yogi?
(a) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 2.
(b) Hoagy the Yogi, Part 1.
(c) Junior Yogi, Part 2.
(d) George and the Yogi.

5. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1756.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?

4. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?

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

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