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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. When does the author begin practicing to be a comics artist?
(a) Since he could pick up a pencil
(b) After his dog dies
(c) During his first office job
(d) In tenth grade

2. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?
(a) Synaesthetics
(b) Phenomenology
(c) Marriage
(d) Consolidation

3. Who was the first artist to present specific motions in a panel-to-panel form?
(a) Duchamp
(b) Herge
(c) Topffer
(d) Tezuka

4. What symbol does the author use to demonstrate the universality of cartoon imagery?
(a) Peace sign
(b) Human face
(c) American flag
(d) Stop sign

5. Whose artwork incorporated mad lines to create crazy toddler?
(a) Carl Bark
(b) Krystine Kryttre
(c) R. Crumb
(d) Chester Gould

Short Answer Questions

1. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?

2. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?

3. Which artist was the first to depict motion by using a single line?

4. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.

5. Which country's artists widely adopted photographic trickery such as blurring and streaking soon after its inception?

(see the answer key)

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