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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. What is used to move a reader or viewer through time?
(a) Texture.
(b) Colors.
(c) Panels.
(d) Lines.
2. In "Contract with God," how is the text lettered?
(a) Partly in Yiddish.
(b) Partly in Celtic runes.
(c) Partly in Hebraic style.
(d) Partly in astrological charts.
3. What long Spirit story does Eisner analyze in Chapter 3?
(a) Strikeout.
(b) Up and Out.
(c) Popfly.
(d) Foul Play.
4. As a language, what do comics need to utilize?
(a) A pair of ears.
(b) A pen and ink.
(c) A grammar.
(d) A message.
5. What is one of the two examples of time measurement Eisner mentions?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Radiowaves.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Minutes.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the nature of lettering reflect about the artist?
2. What method is the mainstay for facial expressions and body movement?
3. What do comics largely emulate?
4. What advantage do film and theater have of an audience that is forced to do what?
5. What are pages laid out as in an example chapter from Life on Another Planet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are used to move a reader/viewer through time?
2. Give examples of different lettering techniques or styles from Eisner's story Contract with God.
3. How do people normally measure distance?
4. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 1: Comics as a Form of Reading.
5. Why did artists after the 16th century use expressions, postures, and backdrops to express their ideas?
6. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 4.
7. How does the panel function as a stage?
8. Where does the emotion or "intuitiveness" of a panel come from?
9. When inscriptions reappeared in the 18th-century, what did artists use to arrange their thoughts and actions for the audience?
10. How does Eisner analyze a long Spirit story, "Foul Play," to show how time is realized through the sequence of events?
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