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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. Whose work often evoked a world of depravity and morbid decay through dense puddles of ink and fraying linework?

2. What step is the genre or school of art to which the work belongs?

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

4. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects

5. What Scottish physicist isolated the three additive primaries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is synaesthetics?

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

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

4. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

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

6. Describe the difference between the additive primaries and the subtractive primaries.

7. What is an advantage of combining words and pictures together, as in comics?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In aspect-to-aspect transitions, McCloud says that nothing "happens." Is presenting different aspects of a place important to storytelling? Why or why not? Do you think McCloud is accurate in saying that this kind of transition does not move the narrative along?

Essay Topic 2

McCloud explains how you introduce time in comics by way of the depiction of time and the perception of time. Compare and contrast the two strategies. Does a preponderance of one or the other affect the end outcome?

Essay Topic 3

New media is often judged by the standards of the old. Do you think these are appropriate standards? Why or why not?

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