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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) Neither between nor within panels
(b) Between panels
(c) Within panels
(d) Both between and within panels

2. In the time after the printing press, which art form was obsessed with resemblance, light and color?
(a) Spoken word
(b) Music
(c) Written word
(d) Visual arts

3. What color of light is created by adding all three additive primaries?
(a) Black
(b) Magenta
(c) White
(d) Cyan

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

5. What step puts it all together - edits the work for content, arrangement and composition?
(a) Craft
(b) Form
(c) Surface
(d) Structure

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

7. What combination has pictures that illustrate but don't significantly add to a largely complete text?
(a) Word-specific
(b) Picture-specific
(c) Additive
(d) Duo-specific

8. What step finishes the first superficial exposure to the work?
(a) Idiom
(b) Surface
(c) Form
(d) Structure

9. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?
(a) Written word predates pictures.
(b) Written word predate spoken word.
(c) Pictures and spoken word developed simultaneously.
(d) Pictures predate written word.

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

11. Which of the following is NOT listed as a flat-color master?
(a) McCay
(b) Cole
(c) Barks
(d) Masereel

12. What kind of combination treats words as integral parts of the picture?
(a) Inter-dependent
(b) Duo-specific
(c) Word specific
(d) Montage

13. In the time after printing was invented, when words and pictures appeared together, how were they combined?
(a) Words and pictures stayed separate.
(b) Pictures always appeared larger.
(c) Words always appeared larger.
(d) Words and pictures co-mingled.

14. The creation of work in any medium will follow a certain path containing how many steps?
(a) Twenty-four
(b) Fifty
(c) Six
(d) Twelve

15. Which of the following is NOT an additive primary?
(a) Red
(b) Yellow
(c) Green
(d) Blue

Short Answer Questions

1. Flat color can make shapes, figures and backgrounds more ________.

2. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?

3. Which of the following is NOT a way to vary word balloons?

4. Who drew Dick Tracy?

5. Which of the following contributed to the shift in resemblance towards meaning in art?

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