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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Living in Line.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.
(a) three
(b) six
(c) one
(d) five

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

3. Which of the following is true?
(a) Animation is spatially juxtaposed; comics are sequential in time.
(b) Animation is spatially juxtaposed; comics are spatially juxtaposed.
(c) Animation is sequential in time; comics are spatially juxtaposed.
(d) Animation is sequential in time; comics are sequential in time.

4. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Herge
(b) Osamu Tezuka
(c) Marshall McLuhan
(d) Jack Kirby

5. Panel shapes affect which of the following?
(a) Meanings
(b) Experience
(c) Time
(d) Dimensions

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?

2. Which of the following is NOT a way to vary word balloons?

3. What genre cannot exist in comics?

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

5. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?

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