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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does a pause inevitably occur while reading?
(a) While the reader/viewer moves from panel to panel.
(b) When the reader/viewer sees the first panel.
(c) When the reader/viewer reads the second to last panel.
(d) When the reader/viewer turns the page.

2. What can be altered to add time lapse without altering rhythm?
(a) Perspective.
(b) Thought process.
(c) Anger.
(d) Focal energy.

3. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?
(a) The One Principle.
(b) The Unity of the Mind.
(c) The Five Ideals.
(d) The Ten Commandments.

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

5. In Eisner's third example of "Contract with God" what drips from the heavy lettering?
(a) Amber.
(b) Resin.
(c) Water.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?

2. How does calligraphy relate to sound?

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

4. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?

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

(see the answer key)

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