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

2. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.
(a) instigator
(b) intermediary
(c) barrier
(d) interpreter

3. Each new medium begins by imitating its _______.
(a) predecessors
(b) descendents
(c) successors
(d) patients

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were the three additive primaries isolated?

2. The creation of work in any medium will follow a certain path containing how many steps?

3. Which of the following is NOT an example of possible primitive art?

4. Who came up with the first symbols to record certain commodities?

5. The standard ______ color process was introduced to help control color costs and streamline the process.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the advantages of color in comics?

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

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

4. Does the six-step path need to be completed in a specific order?

5. How does McCloud feel about color and comics?

6. In panels rich with images, why would an artist add words?

7. What problem results from people believing that comics is a new form of media?

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

9. Describe the origin of words.

10. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

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