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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which comic artist introduced the storytelling techniques used in most mainstream comics?

2. What panel-to-panel transition requires the least amount of closure?

3. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.

4. "To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to ___________."

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Scott McCloud the ultimate authority of comics?

2. For what do Japanese mainstream comics use aspect-to-aspect transitions?

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

4. How do people commit closure in electronic media such as a a film?

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

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

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

8. What is a Japanese technique usied in cartooning?

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

10. Does McCloud think that non-sequitur transitions are possible?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In your own words, answer Scott McCloud's question, "Why should we try so hard to understand comics?"

Essay Topic 2

Art can be thought of as any human activity that doesn't grow out of either basic instinct of survival and reproduction. How do you define art? According to this definition, what are examples of what is and isn't art?

Essay Topic 3

The author notes that comics are not the hybrid of graphics and words. What do you think of this statement? Are comics their own entity? Or do they tend to fall into one category more than the other? Explain your answer

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