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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 was the name of Max Ernst's surreal plate sequence?
(a) Graphic Novel
(b) Collage Novel
(c) Woodcut Novels
(d) Carved Novel

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

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

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

5. What were innovative characteristics of Rudolphe Töpffer's work?
(a) All of the above
(b) Interdependent combination of words and pictures
(c) Cartooning
(d) Panel borders

Short Answer Questions

1. What determines the duration of time and dimensions of space in a panel?

2. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.

3. McCloud notes that we perceive the world as ______ through the experience of our senses, even though our senses can only reveal a _______ world.

4. What does McCloud name the two bastions of cartoon art?

5. Besides sound, which of the following can represent a span of time in a single panel ?

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