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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the structure of a comic, where can senses and emotions be portrayed?
(a) Between panels
(b) Both between and within panels
(c) Neither between nor within panels
(d) Within panels

2. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?
(a) Egyptian accountants
(b) Roman rulers
(c) Ancient Greeks
(d) Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia

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

4. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?
(a) Carl Bark
(b) Rory Hayes
(c) Charles Schultz
(d) Robert Crumb

5. Which of the following contributed to the shift in resemblance towards meaning in art?
(a) Expressionism
(b) Futurism
(c) All of the these
(d) Dada

6. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Orange
(b) Apple
(c) Peach
(d) Banana

7. What color technique can be used to add depth?
(a) tones and modelling
(b) neither tones nor modelling
(c) tones only
(d) modelling only

8. What did Eisner call a desperation device?
(a) Aspect-to-aspect
(b) Word balloon
(c) Sound effects
(d) Motion line

9. Flat color can make shapes, figures and backgrounds more ________.
(a) oppressive
(b) objective
(c) boring
(d) subjective

10. What step is the genre or school of art to which the work belongs?
(a) Idea/Purpose
(b) Craft
(c) Idiom
(d) Structure

11. The pursuit of truth can be seen as the foundation of which of the following?
(a) All of these
(b) Science
(c) Philosophy
(d) Language

12. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?
(a) Children
(b) Elders
(c) Adolescents
(d) Adults

13. What step constructs the work by applying skills, practical knowledge, invention, and problem-solving?
(a) Form
(b) Craft
(c) Structure
(d) Idiom

14. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?
(a) Jose Munoz
(b) Kirby
(c) Spiegelman
(d) Jules Feiffer

15. Whose artwork incorporated mad lines to create crazy toddler?
(a) Carl Bark
(b) R. Crumb
(c) Chester Gould
(d) Krystine Kryttre

Short Answer Questions

1. What step finishes the first superficial exposure to the work?

2. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?

3. In black and white, the ideas ______ the art are communicated more ______.

4. Who drew Dick Tracy?

5. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?

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