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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 does Eisner say images can trigger?
(a) Recall and emotion.
(b) Realism and empathy.
(c) Remonstrance and energy.
(d) Renewal and excellence.

2. What does Eisner wish artists to know about shadow?
(a) It evokes fear.
(b) It evokes joy.
(c) It evokes danger.
(d) It evokes respect.

3. What can give insight into a character's lifestyle and allow sociological observations?
(a) Gesture and time.
(b) Posture and thought.
(c) Posture and gesture.
(d) Posture and observation.

4. What kind of movements flow together over short periods?
(a) Broad, gestural sketches.
(b) Extremely large gestures.
(c) Extremely subtle movements.
(d) Extremely graphic flashes.

5. What can artists be tempted to do to detract from the storyline?
(a) Hone the craft.
(b) Sharpen the mind.
(c) Dazzle the eye.
(d) Seize the day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "still" scenes used to bridge the gap between movie scripts and final photography on motion pictures?

2. In what person does Eisner illustrate and recast Hamlet?

3. Why is the face the most important part of the body in comics?

4. What gives voice to thoughts and gives meaning to action?

5. What was the name of Eisner's 1981 attempt to illustrate Shakespeare's famous soliloquy of Hamlet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are comic book artists most challenged in portraying amorphics?

2. Why do people make important daily judgments about faces?

3. Why must frozen moments convey both time and emotion?

4. Why does Eisner reproduce several pages from his graphic novel To the Heart of the Storm along with a close-up pencil dummy page?

5. Explain the goal of "Body language".

6. Explain why comic writers first create a written script of their idea and story/plot, including narrative and dialog (balloons).

7. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 7.

8. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 5.

9. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 8.

10. What temptation do artists have to detract from the text?

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