Understanding Comics Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Understanding Comics Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first artist to present specific motions in a panel-to-panel form?
(a) Duchamp
(b) Tezuka
(c) Herge
(d) Topffer

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

3. What genre cannot exist in comics?
(a) Satire
(b) Epic poetry
(c) None of the above
(d) Biography

4. What additional early examples of comics does the author mention but NOT cover?
(a) Japanese scrolls
(b) All of the above
(c) Greek painting
(d) Trajan's column

5. Which is an example of our ability to extend our identities into inanimate objects?
(a) All of the above
(b) Glass
(c) Crutches
(d) Utensils

6. What is typically the second most common type of transition in the most storytelling technique used in comics?
(a) Subject-to-subject
(b) Moment-to-moment
(c) Scene-to-scene
(d) Action-to-action

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

8. Which pair of words does not relate to each other, in terms of comic style?
(a) Complex; simple
(b) Famous; anonymous
(c) Realistic; iconic
(d) Objective; subjective

9. Comics relay on _____ sense(s) to convey a world of experience.
(a) six
(b) one
(c) three
(d) five

10. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.
(a) the artist and the publisher
(b) the reader and the frame
(c) the creator and audience
(d) the brand and the distributor

11. When reading comics, how many senses are used between panels?
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) One
(d) Zero

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

13. The author likens the representation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to which of the following?
(a) Comics
(b) Numbers
(c) Sounds
(d) Words

14. 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?
(a) Dave Sim and Derhard
(b) Carl Barks
(c) Jaime Hernandez
(d) Tom King

15. What invention had a significant effect on comics?
(a) Colored ink
(b) Printing
(c) Ballpoint pens
(d) Recycled paper

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Panel shapes affect which of the following?

3. Each panel of a comic shows a ______________________.

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

5. Who painted "The Treachery of Images?"

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