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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. What is an example of comics that is not referred to as comics?
(a) Diagrams
(b) Live-action movies
(c) Hieroglyphics
(d) Single-panel cartoons

2. How does McCloud loosely define cartooning?
(a) A form of compression through simplification
(b) A form of amplification through simplification
(c) A form of amplification through complication
(d) A form of compression through complication

3. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?
(a) Numbers
(b) Sounds
(c) Comics
(d) Words

4. What does McCloud call the "ultimate abstraction?"
(a) Ideas
(b) Pictographs
(c) Words
(d) Movies

5. What object is painted in "The Treachery of Images?"
(a) A flute
(b) A drum
(c) A spoon
(d) A pipe

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?

3. Due to the negative connotation of the word "comics," many comics artists have preferred to be known as ________________________.

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

5. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?

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