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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 transition offers no logical relationship between panels?
(a) Action-to-action
(b) Subject-to-subject
(c) Scene-to-scene
(d) Non-sequitur

2. Using the pictorial vocabulary pyramid, Herges' style is typically comprised of __________________.
(a) reality and language
(b) icon and language
(c) icon and reality
(d) meaning and icon

3. What is the core of a work of art?
(a) None of these
(b) Structure
(c) Idiom
(d) Craft

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

5. Pictures and words should have what kind of relationship?
(a) Subversive
(b) Domineering
(c) Unequal
(d) Partnership

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the space between comic panels called?

2. When reading comics, how many senses are used between panels?

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. Herge's Tintin was characterized by very iconic characters with unusually realistic backgrounds. This style is called _______.

5. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?

(see the answer key)

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