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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must the artist deal with to decide when abbreviations or omissions are required?
(a) Time limitations.
(b) Punctuation placement.
(c) Space limitations and the artist's rendering skills.
(d) Skills, technique, and sweat.

2. What can artists be tempted to do to detract from the storyline?
(a) Seize the day.
(b) Sharpen the mind.
(c) Hone the craft.
(d) Dazzle the eye.

3. After which century, did artists start to depend on expressions, postures, and backdrops?
(a) 17th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 16th.
(d) 15th.

4. What does Eisner depict in three panels as an example of the inseparability of words and images?
(a) Two goldfish in a bowl.
(b) Five gold rings.
(c) Five golden geese.
(d) Three golden retrievers.

5. How can a panel have a body plunge down the right-hand margin of a page?
(a) By using the spiral principle.
(b) By breaking the left-to-right convention.
(c) By forming a new principle about pressure panels.
(d) By breaking the right-to-left convention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?

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

3. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?

4. What was used initially to create code that can be memorized and deciphered?

5. What is the title of Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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