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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 do people learn to measure distance by?
(a) Circumference and Diameter.
(b) Nature and the Heavens.
(c) Optics and Illusion.
(d) Sight and Sound.

2. What can be altered to add time lapse without altering rhythm?
(a) Focal energy.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Anger.
(d) Thought process.

3. In the Spirit story "Two Lives," which character is incarcerated?
(a) Mariford Rubens.
(b) John.
(c) Cranfranz Qwayle.
(d) Carboy T. Gretch.

4. What does much of the emotion and "intuitiveness" depend on from the artist?
(a) The artist's vision.
(b) The artist's style.
(c) The artist's patience.
(d) The artist's technique.

5. If a reader knows instinctively how gravity works, what will happen when they read panels that don't function like sentences?
(a) Comics must function like sentences.
(b) The reader will stop reading.
(c) The comic will stop making sense.
(d) The reader will naturally follow the action in the panels.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does Eisner use to describe the relationship of timing and rhythm?

3. Why is the basic panel layout normally strictly prescribed?

4. Calligraphy symbols are rendered with what three things?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the function of balloons?

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

3. Why is bridging gaps in the action a more visceral than intellectual activity?

4. Why is text sometimes lettered in a style consistent with the sentiment of a scene?

5. Why are close-ups used when facial expressions are critical?

6. What are used to move a reader/viewer through time?

7. Briefly give a synopsis of Chapter 2.

8. Why must the sequential artist and the reader share life experiences for communication to occur?

9. How do people normally measure distance?

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

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