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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Graphic novels include reading written words and what else, for example?
(a) Images, love, theory, abstraction.
(b) 3D worlds, technology, maps, music.
(c) Pictures, maps, circuit diagrams, musical notes.
(d) Touch, taste, smell, pictures.

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

3. What did comics evolve into?
(a) Graphic novels.
(b) Comic newspapers.
(c) Diatomes.
(d) Storybooks.

4. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?
(a) Blocking.
(b) Spacing.
(c) Character development.
(d) Timing.

5. What particular changes in sound does calligraphy relate to?
(a) Changes in inflection and sound levels in speech.
(b) Changes in heart palpitations.
(c) Changes in vocal patterns.
(d) Changes in pressure of vocal strings and ink.

Short Answer Questions

1. The earliest use of balloons was in what culture?

2. What characteristics of panels contribute to the sequence of time?

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

4. What other example of time measurement does Eisner mention?

5. How did comics begin?

(see the answer key)

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