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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, A Word about Color.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of the sequel to "A Harlot's Progress?"
(a) "A Rake's Progress"
(b) "A King's Progress"
(c) "A Piper's Progress"
(d) "A Pauper's Progress"

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

3. Which of the following is true?
(a) Animation is spatially juxtaposed; comics are spatially juxtaposed.
(b) Animation is sequential in time; comics are spatially juxtaposed.
(c) Animation is spatially juxtaposed; comics are sequential in time.
(d) Animation is sequential in time; comics are sequential in time.

4. Which of the following is an assumption that comics artists make about the reader?
(a) They read the panels in correct order.
(b) They read the comics in one sitting.
(c) They have read previous stories in the series.
(d) They will like the story.

5. Comics printing was superior on which continent?
(a) North America
(b) Asia
(c) Africa
(d) Europe

Short Answer Questions

1. What step constructs the work by applying skills, practical knowledge, invention, and problem-solving?

2. What genre cannot exist in comics?

3. Which of the following is not a benefit from non-basic human activities such as art?

4. 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?

5. Which artist started the trend to incorporate photographic streaking to depict motion?

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