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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, A Word about Color.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which artist incorporated neurotic quill-lines into his/her work?
(a) R. Crumb
(b) Chester Gould
(c) Krystine Kryttre
(d) Carl Bark

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

3. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?
(a) All of the above
(b) Interdependent combination of words and pictures
(c) Cartooning
(d) Panel borders

4. Widening the shape of a panel can affect the _______ of time.
(a) romanticization
(b) perception
(c) characterization
(d) depiction

5. What is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?
(a) Gestalt
(b) Dementia
(c) Closure
(d) Fragmentation

Short Answer Questions

1. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?

2. Which artist started the trend to incorporate photographic streaking to depict motion?

3. What kind of combination uses words and pictures on separate courses with no intersection?

4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?

5. What panel-to-panel transition requires the least amount of closure?

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