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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the main forums for sequential art in today's world?
(a) Daily comic strips.
(b) Weekly comic strips.
(c) Roman friezes.
(d) Gnostic illustrations.

3. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?
(a) Fly.
(b) Be invincible.
(c) Be invisible.
(d) Sing.

4. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) The comic will stop making sense.
(b) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.
(c) The reader will stop reading.
(d) Comics must function like sentences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did comics evolve into?

2. For what purpose did the artists start to use expressions, postures, and backdrops?

3. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?

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

5. What forces the reader to supply dialogue in an image sequence?

(see the answer key)

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