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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Most Japanese comics first appear published in __________________.
(a) thin publications
(b) parts
(c) manga magazines
(d) enormous anthology titles

3. What techniques can be used to create timelessness?
(a) All of the above
(b) Bleeding a panel
(c) A borderless panel
(d) Silent panel with no clues as to duration

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

5. When McCloud refers to the word icon, to what is he referring?
(a) One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
(b) A picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing
(c) Any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea
(d) A representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the woodcut artist known for his silent "Woodcut Novels" of fables?

2. What is the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole?

3. This effect of contrasting characters and backgrounds is used by which of the following?

4. What is not one of the vertices of the triangular pictorial vocabulary?

5. When does the author begin practicing to be a comics artist?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the panel with the basketball players, how could you add words while depicting one single moment?

2. Is Scott McCloud the ultimate authority of comics?

3. Is there a difference between an animated movie and comics?

4. How could an artist lengthen a pause in the conversation between two characters?

5. What is a Japanese technique usied in cartooning?

6. How are faces and figures typically drawn in comics? What about backgrounds and landscapes?

7. What is McCloud's explanation for why the human mind has little difficulty converting shapes and images into faces?

8. What is McCloud's notion of the Picture Plane?

9. How is the Egyptian painting referenced in the book considered a comic?

10. According to McCloud, everything that people experience in life can be separated into which two realms?

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