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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. What step puts it all together - edits the work for content, arrangement and composition?

2. Which of the following is not a benefit from non-basic human activities such as art?

3. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?

4. Whose artwork incorporated mad lines to create crazy toddler?

5. What color of light is created by adding all three additive primaries?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was the four-color process created?

5. How can words and pictures together create a more meaningful message than each individually?

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

7. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

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

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

10. What happened after the birth of Expressionism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

McCloud writes that when he was a child, he believed that the world ceased to exist unless he was present. As he grew older, he began filling in gaps with assumptions in order to get closure. What are strategies and evidence we use to convince ourselves of the existence of things we have not experienced first hand? To test these definitions, consider whether they would stand up to the question of whether extraterrestrial life exists.

Essay Topic 2

In comics, a great deal of the storytelling occurs between the panels and the reader must use his/her imagination to tell the story. Is McCloud accurate in saying that comics requires more reader participation than any other artform? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

McCloud says that with comics, if all you see is ink and paper, what you see is seldom what you get. Instead he notes that, "In the end, what you get is what you give." What does he mean by this statement? Can you see this concept applying to other situations outside of comics?

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