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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of judgments do people make about faces?
(a) Half-hearted judgments.
(b) Only inconsequential judgments.
(c) Important daily judgments.
(d) No judgments.

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

3. How many points does Eisner say an artist must understand about how objects work?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

4. What things are not described but added when words are coupled with images?
(a) Sound, monologues, vocal patterns.
(b) Weight, height, style.
(c) Sound, dialogue, connections.
(d) Connections, webs, tangles.

5. What do purely instructional comics often use to show relevance?
(a) Pain.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Humor.
(d) Sorrow.

6. What are "still" scenes used to bridge the gap between movie scripts and final photography on motion pictures?
(a) Story scenes.
(b) Imageboards.
(c) Wordboards.
(d) Storyboards.

7. What was used initially to create code that can be memorized and deciphered?
(a) Summary.
(b) Repetitive glyphs.
(c) Repetitive summary.
(d) Reproduction.

8. Because halftone engraving in newspapers was crude, early strips were limited to what art?
(a) Black line art.
(b) Blue line art.
(c) Invisible line art.
(d) Sepia line art.

9. What other method requires production of a paperboard with colors added to transparent overlays?
(a) Green line.
(b) Red line.
(c) Black line.
(d) Blue line.

10. What is the intermediate mock up that allows editor, writer, and artist to review the project called in comics?
(a) Mechanical.
(b) Story board.
(c) Layout.
(d) Dummy.

11. What must artists realize about casual props like door hinges?
(a) They must look surreal.
(b) They must move with gravity.
(c) They must be rendered accurately.
(d) They must be brown with rust.

12. What should the artist be able to produce?
(a) Flawless images.
(b) Minute details.
(c) Recognizable imagery.
(d) Speedy replicas.

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

14. What determines how successfully the commonality of the human body is conveyed?
(a) The artist's style.
(b) The artist's skill.
(c) The artist's memory.
(d) The artist's business.

15. What depends on choosing worthwhile themes and innovating the exposition?
(a) The past of the graphic novel.
(b) The past of periodical comics.
(c) The future of the graphic novel.
(d) The future of the written word.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a modern attempt at codifying the wide range of postures and the emotions they reflect

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

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

4. What kind of movements are "frozen" in time?

5. What do the writer and artist "pledge allegiance" to when working on comics together?

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