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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did comics begin?
(a) In printmaking.
(b) In MS Paint.
(c) As short features.
(d) As one-page illustrations.

2. What can hold the whole together through changes of scenery?
(a) Quills.
(b) Postcards.
(c) Scripts.
(d) Twine.

3. Around when did daily comic strips first appear?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1934.

4. What arranges illusions and symbols to stretch time and enhance emotion?
(a) Timing.
(b) Blocking.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Character development.

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

6. What are these artists trying to arrange?
(a) Simple questions.
(b) Complex thoughts, sounds, actions, and ideas.
(c) Power and wealth.
(d) Neural synapses.

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

8. Imagery examines and illustrates the juxtaposition of what two things?
(a) Sound and thought.
(b) Words and imagery.
(c) Music and imagery.
(d) Words and movement.

9. What other things can lettering reflect in comics?
(a) Heart and mind.
(b) Thought and size.
(c) Character and emotion.
(d) Mentality and personality.

10. What novelty can suggest dimension and involve the reader/viewer better than a regular container?
(a) Using doorways or windows to frame a panel.
(b) Using 3D imagery.
(c) Using rulers to structure lines clearly.
(d) Using accompanying CDs to explain the pages.

11. What characteristics of panels contribute to the sequence of time?
(a) The depth and breadth of panels.
(b) The speed and radius of panels.
(c) The matter and width of panels.
(d) The number and size of panels.

12. What conventions do comics rely on?
(a) Natural conventions.
(b) Reading conventions.
(c) Symbolic conventions.
(d) Emotional conventions.

13. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?
(a) Interlocked.
(b) Intertwined.
(c) Interfixed.
(d) Intersected.

14. Why does Eisner analyze this particular Spirit story in Chapter 3?
(a) To demonstrate the alteration of perspective.
(b) To show how images and rhythm are disparate.
(c) To demonstrate the nature of space and width.
(d) To show how time is realized through sequence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of a young person's life are comic books said to have a role?

2. What kind of vision is related to freezing a moment in an uninterrupted flow of action?

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

4. In "Contract with God" by Eisner, what does the stone tablet suggest?

5. What can the frame's shape or absence convey?

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