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

2. Who is the 44th comic artist listed in the triangle?
(a) Lynda Barry
(b) Gilbert Hernandez
(c) Mary Fleener
(d) Craig Russell

3. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comics, as defined in Understanding Comics?
(a) Juxtaposed pictorial and other images
(b) Intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer
(c) In deliberate sequence
(d) Animation

4. What is the space between comic panels called?
(a) The ditch
(b) The gutter
(c) The jump
(d) The frame

5. The art of comics is as _______ as it is ________.
(a) meaningless; abstract
(b) humorous; generous
(c) subtractive; additive
(d) divisive; multiplicative

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Egyptian paintings read?

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

3. Which of the following icons has a fixed and absolute meaning?

4. Which is an example of our ability to extend our identities into inanimate objects?

5. What is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?

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