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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 invention had a significant effect on comics?
(a) Printing
(b) Ballpoint pens
(c) Colored ink
(d) Recycled paper

2. Comics printing was superior on which continent?
(a) Asia
(b) Europe
(c) North America
(d) Africa

3. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-expression and communication?
(a) None of these
(b) Photography
(c) Comics
(d) Marionettes

4. Using the example of driving to illustrate non-visual awareness, what is the likely response of the driver of the vehicle being struck if one car hits another?
(a) "His car hit me!"
(b) "He hit me!"
(c) "He hit my car!"
(d) "His car hit my car!"

5. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?
(a) Sound effects
(b) Word balloon
(c) Motion line
(d) Aspect-to-aspect

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author begin practicing to be a comics artist?

2. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Mary Fleener's style is NOT typically comprised of ________.

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

4. Most Japanese comics first appear published in __________________.

5. Which of the following is an assumption that comics artists make about the reader?

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