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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two things limit the artist's choice of outline?
(a) The number of pens and pencils the artist owns.
(b) The narrative requirement and constrictions on page dimensions.
(c) The sequential drive and linear focus of the page.
(d) The scope and vision of the work.

3. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Narrative.
(b) Framing.
(c) Sequence.
(d) Elements.

4. In one of Eisner's Spirit stories he analyzes a hero who wishes to do what?
(a) Be invincible.
(b) Sing.
(c) Fly.
(d) Be invisible.

5. What do unusual container frames do to the reader?
(a) Explain the storyline more clearly.
(b) Pull him or her in.
(c) Show the audience a better picture.
(d) Keep him or her at bay.

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

7. In which 18th century tool do inscriptions reappear?
(a) Broadsheets.
(b) Narrowplanes.
(c) Broadpages.
(d) Narrowpanels.

8. Does this book suggest the structures of illustration and of prose are similar?
(a) The article says illustration has no structure.
(b) They are profoundly different.
(c) The article does not mention any similarity.
(d) Yes.

9. Images without words require what in the reader or viewer?
(a) Extra sophistication.
(b) Little knowledge.
(c) Belief.
(d) Technical practice.

10. What kind of introduction does "Comics as a Form of Reading" use to discuss art?
(a) Emotional.
(b) Geometric.
(c) Religious.
(d) Philosophical.

11. What is another word for panels?
(a) Hearts.
(b) Bubbles.
(c) Boxes.
(d) Bows.

12. What can be used when facial expressions are critical?
(a) Narrow channels.
(b) Close-ups.
(c) Panoramic views.
(d) Heavy lines.

13. What kind of vision is related to freezing a moment in an uninterrupted flow of action?
(a) Circumspect.
(b) Peripheral.
(c) Dilated.
(d) Spatial.

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

15. What can often be left out in subsequent panels after the first page of a story?
(a) The characters.
(b) The text.
(c) The panels.
(d) The setting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conventions do comics rely on?

2. When does a pause inevitably occur while reading?

3. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?

4. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?

5. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?

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