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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?
(a) Technical practice.
(b) Belief.
(c) Little knowledge.
(d) Extra sophistication.

2. Expression becomes an alphabet when it undergoes what process?
(a) Chrysallis.
(b) Transmutation.
(c) Symbolification.
(d) Codification.

3. What type of art does "Comics as a Form of Reading" describe?
(a) Phoenician watercolors.
(b) The modern form of sequential art.
(c) Linear art.
(d) The ancient drawings at Lasceux.

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

5. When speed lines indicate motion they are part of what language?
(a) Syntactic.
(b) Visual.
(c) Mental.
(d) Artistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?

2. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?

3. How can a panel be diagrammed?

4. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share any experience?

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

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