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

2. In a panel with a lot of action, such as the one on page 95, each figure is arranged sequentially and the audience will read them left to right. This could be argued as fitting the definition of _______.
(a) gutters
(b) comics
(c) cartoons
(d) panels

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

4. The standard ______ color process was introduced to help control color costs and streamline the process.
(a) Five
(b) Three
(c) Nine
(d) Four

5. Which artist was the first to depict motion by using a single line?
(a) Duchamp
(b) Tezuka
(c) Topffer
(d) Herge

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following contributed to the shift in resemblance towards meaning in art?

2. What is the space between comic panels called?

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

4. Which of the following point in time of the panel is represented by where your eyes are focused?

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

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