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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Blood in the Gutter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?
(a) Idols
(b) Non-pictorial
(c) Saints
(d) Pictorial

2. Which of the following artists uses more transitions than normal?
(a) G. Hernandez
(b) Osamu Tezuka
(c) Jack Kirby
(d) Spiegelman

3. Visual iconography is to vocabulary as closure is to _______________.
(a) punctuation
(b) speech
(c) grammar
(d) capitalization

4. Which is an example of our ability to extend our identities into inanimate objects?
(a) Glass
(b) Crutches
(c) All of the above
(d) Utensils

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What transition offers no logical relationship between panels?

2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?

3. What transition requires deductive reasoning and transports the reader across significant distances of time and space?

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

5. What transition features a single subject in distinct progressions?

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