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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Six Steps.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Banana
(b) Peach
(c) Apple
(d) Orange

2. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?
(a) Idea/Purpose
(b) Structure
(c) Craft
(d) Idiom

3. What is typically the second most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Scene-to-scene
(b) Subject-to-subject
(c) Action-to-action
(d) Moment-to-moment

4. Who said, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible?"
(a) Wassily Kandinsky
(b) Paul Klee
(c) French poet Baudelaire
(d) Richard Wagner

5. The order and emphasis of which two steps demonstrates the most dramatic difference?
(a) Form and idea/purpose
(b) Form and structure
(c) Idiom and idea/purpose
(d) Idiom and Form

Short Answer Questions

1. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.

2. What step constructs the work by applying skills, practical knowledge, invention, and problem-solving?

3. The creation of work in any medium will follow a certain path containing how many steps?

4. What did Eisner call a desperation device?

5. What step determines whether the art will be a book, a sculpture or a song?

(see the answer key)

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