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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?
(a) Power, individuality, transcendence.
(b) Beauty, power, rhythm.
(c) Progression, change, style.
(d) Beauty, rhythm, and individuality.

4. What specific content does Chapter 4 discuss?
(a) Technical specifics.
(b) Broad ideas.
(c) Significant authors.
(d) Didactic dictation.

5. What other word can describe the use of letters in comics?
(a) Method.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Construct.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do different renderings require from the viewer?

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

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

4. What do people learn to measure distance by?

5. What characteristic of a sentence acts as framing with lines in comics?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did artists after the 16th century use expressions, postures, and backdrops to express their ideas?

2. Give examples of different lettering techniques or styles from Eisner's story Contract with God.

3. Why is the repetitiveness of comics compared to a language forming its own grammar?

4. Why do images without words require extra sophistication in the reader/viewer?

5. Explain how composing a comic strip panel is like designing a mural, illustration, painting, or theatrical scene.

6. What happens to the hero in one of Eisner's Spirit stories who wishes he could fly?

7. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 1: Comics as a Form of Reading.

8. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 4.

9. Besides the text in comics, what must the reader/viewer "read"?

10. How do people normally measure distance?

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