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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. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects
(a) size
(b) action
(c) shape
(d) purpose

2. Comics printing was superior on which continent?
(a) Europe
(b) Asia
(c) Africa
(d) North America

3. Which of the following is a use of color in comics?
(a) To add depth
(b) All of these
(c) To express a mood
(d) To create a sensation

4. Which of the following is not a benefit from non-basic human activities such as art?
(a) All of these
(b) Provides emotional outlets
(c) Provides exercise for minds and bodies
(d) Leads to useful discoveries

5. Which of the following artists was NOT known for a more subjective palette?
(a) Moebius
(b) Clavelous
(c) Herges
(d) Caza

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who drew Dick Tracy?

3. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?

4. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a pioneer or revolutionary whose art became the purpose?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to comics after the invention of printing?

2. What three aspects of art benefit humans from an evolutionary standpoint?

3. Describe the process of creating art using the six-step path.

4. How can backgrounds indicate invisible ideas such as emotions?

5. What is synaesthetics?

6. How can an artist depict emotion in a comic?

7. Describe the typical artist who starts with an idea/purpose and then creates art.

8. Describe the typical artist who finds idea/purpose after creating art.

9. Why do people think words and pictures together is more simplistic than either art individually?

10. In Chapter 7, how does McCloud see, or define, art?

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