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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. What new law was created to protect Töpffer's new art form following the successful publication of "A Harlot's Progress" and its sequel?
(a) Income tax
(b) Minimum wage
(c) Copyright
(d) Restraining order

2. Who is the author of the book?
(a) Stan Lee
(b) Will Eisner
(c) Scott McCloud
(d) Rudolphe Töpffer

3. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?
(a) Adults
(b) Children
(c) Adolescents
(d) Elders

4. Japanese comics artists also drew more realistic characters to emphasize __________________________.
(a) their "otherness" from the reader
(b) the artist's range and skill
(c) the strokes
(d) the character's relatability

5. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?
(a) Parallel
(b) Picture-specific
(c) Word-specific
(d) Duo-specific

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of comics has been especially sensitive to changes in technology?

2. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.

3. What genre cannot exist in comics?

4. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

5. The order and emphasis of which two steps demonstrates the most dramatic difference?

(see the answer key)

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