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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Vocabulary of Comics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Egyptian paintings read?
(a) Left to right
(b) Zig-zag
(c) Right to left
(d) Up to down

2. What was the title of the sequel to "A Harlot's Progress?"
(a) "A Pauper's Progress"
(b) "A Piper's Progress"
(c) "A King's Progress"
(d) "A Rake's Progress"

3. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Mary Fleener's style is NOT typically comprised of ________.
(a) non-iconic content
(b) reality
(c) iconic content
(d) language

4. What type of magazine kept comics alive before the 20th century?
(a) British caricature
(b) American writing
(c) French art
(d) German cartoon

5. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?
(a) Picture Plane
(b) Language
(c) Reality
(d) Map

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following icons are fluid and variable in how realistic they are?

2. What genre cannot exist in comics?

3. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?

4. When and where did the author think comics originated?

5. Which of the following is NOT an American comic artist that uses the style of creating one set of lines to see and another to be?

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