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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Time Frames.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author believes that comics is an art form similar to which of the following?
(a) Written word
(b) Theatre
(c) Music
(d) All of the above

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

3. Who observed that a non-visual awareness occurs when people interact with inanimate objects?
(a) Herge
(b) Osamu Tezuka
(c) Marshall McLuhan
(d) Jack Kirby

4. What new law was created to protect Töpffer's new art form following the successful publication of "A Harlot's Progress" and its sequel?
(a) Minimum wage
(b) Income tax
(c) Restraining order
(d) Copyright

5. Which country's artists widely adopted photographic trickery such as blurring and streaking soon after its inception?
(a) England
(b) France
(c) Japan
(d) America

Short Answer Questions

1. Panel shapes affect which of the following?

2. What is another word for motion lines?

3. In comics, words represent that which can only exist in time, _______.

4. What is typically the third most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?

5. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

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