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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should publishers act?
(a) As entertainers.
(b) As robots.
(c) As catalysts.
(d) As moneymakers.

2. What does Eisner say images can trigger?
(a) Recall and emotion.
(b) Remonstrance and energy.
(c) Realism and empathy.
(d) Renewal and excellence.

3. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?
(a) As a blank space.
(b) As a pure visual without text.
(c) With no visuals only text.
(d) With the text.

4. Where does Eisner's second example in "Contract with God" take place?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Mount Sinai.
(c) Madison Avenue.
(d) Riverbrook.

5. Why is time harder to measure in comics?
(a) Because it is more visible.
(b) Because it is more illusory.
(c) Because it is more circular.
(d) Because it is more linear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?

2. How big is the simplified script when determining an agreement between artist and writer?

3. What skills are mandatory because the sequential art of comics is intended for reproduction?

4. What characteristic of comics examines how the sequential artist works with space and time?

5. In what time frame did comics assume the typical reader was a "10-year old from Iowa"?

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