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

2. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?
(a) Ancient Greeks
(b) Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia
(c) Egyptian accountants
(d) Roman rulers

3. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) grammar
(b) punctuation
(c) speech
(d) capitalization

4. McCloud notes that we perceive the world as ______ through the experience of our senses, even though our senses can only reveal a _______ world.
(a) incomplete; whole
(b) incomplete; stable
(c) whole; distrustful
(d) whole; fragmented

5. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?
(a) Rory Hayes
(b) Carl Bark
(c) Charles Schultz
(d) Robert Crumb

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the creator of Uncle $crooge?

2. What is the core of a work of art?

3. What transition offers no logical relationship between panels?

4. What transition requires deductive reasoning and transports the reader across significant distances of time and space?

5. What did Eisner call a desperation device?

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