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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What has primacy over text in comics?
(a) The image.
(b) Body posture and gesture.
(c) The font.
(d) Sound and song.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this alphabetic expression introduce?

2. What kind of stories have dominated the field of comics because of the limitations of the medium?

3. When writing words, authors do what to the reader's imagination?

4. What is the face sometimes treated as?

5. What is usually the key to a gesture's meaning?

(see the answer key)

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