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

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

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

4. Why is the face the most important part of the body in comics?
(a) It reveals the personality.
(b) It reveals nothing.
(c) It is fun to draw.
(d) It shows who is who.

5. What must be followed completely by the artist and writer?
(a) The writing process.
(b) The drawing process.
(c) The thinking process.
(d) The painting process.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter 6 focus on?

2. What do most humans understand the face as?

3. What are amorphics?

4. What typically develops before graphic development?

5. What does Eisner flatly declare about the relationship between artist and writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the "blue line" method work?

2. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 6.

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

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

5. Give a brief synopsis of Chapter 8.

6. How can posture and gesture give insight into a character's lifestyle and allow sociological observations?

7. Why should an artist read short stories?

8. Why does Eisner reproduce the story written by Jules Feiffer that was never published?

9. Why do entertainment comics deny to the readers/viewers much of the freedom they would enjoy in pure prose?

10. Why are comic book artists frequently hired to produce storyboards for movie scripts and motion pictures?

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