Understanding Comics: Chapter 1
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This quiz is designed to help you retain the information from Understanding Comics: Chapter 1.
- 1.
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Sequential Art is an all encompassing term that defines comics but does not prohibit genres, method, or the tools used to create comics.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.
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What master comics artist coined the term: Sequential Art?- A.
Garry Trudeau
- B.
Matt Groening
- C.
Will Eisner
- D.
Scott McCloud
- 3.
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What is the hero's name from the Pre-Columbian Picture Manuscript "Discovered" by Cortés?- A.
10-Dog "Eagle Copal Burning
- B.
6-House "Row Of Flint Knives"
- C.
4-Wind "Serpent Of Fire"
- D.
8-Deer "Tiger's-Claw"
- 4.
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Single panels cartoons are one of the original forms of modern-day comics (Sequential Art): TRUE or FALSE?- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.
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"The artform--the medium--known as comics is a vessel which can hold any number of ideas and images." Which of the following are needed in the comic medium?- A.
Writers and Artist
- B.
Trends and Genres
- C.
Subject Matter and Themes
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
- 6.
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Most books about comics began shortly before the turn of the last century.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.
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McCloud writes about the "Thirty-Two Century" old sequential painting found in the Egyptian scribe Menna's tomb. According to the painting, as Menna watches, farmers late in paying their taxes are ___________.- A.
Giving one chance to pray for mercy and then killed in the name of Amen Ra.
- B.
Made to pay double the original taxes.
- C.
Made to sacrifice an ox in the name of Osiris.
- D.
Burned by the x-ray vision possessed by men like Menna.
- E.
Beaten for their tardiness.
- 8.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is strikingly similar to Comics?- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.
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At first glance, Egyptian Hieroglyphics would seem to fit our definition of Comics perfectly but...- A.
Hieroglyphics' real descendent is Jazz music and not Comics.
- B.
Hieroglyphics' real descendent is the written word and not Comics.
- C.
Hieroglyphics' real descendent is military strategy and not Comics.
- D.
Hieroglyphics' real descendent is anthropomorphism and not Comics.
- 10.
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The invention of the printing press is the one event which looms as large in comics history as it does in the history of the written word.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.
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The print below depicts....- A.
The Tortures of Saint Erasmus
- B.
The Tortures of Saint Tropez
- C.
The Tortures of Saint Paul John
- D.
The Tortures of Saint Bernard
- 12.
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The sophistication of the picture-story did grow, however, reaching great heights in the nimble hands of William Hogarth.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.
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The father of modern comic in many ways is...- A.
Saint Erasmus
- B.
William Hogarth
- C.
Rodolphe Töpffer
- D.
Charles M. Schulz
- 14.
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Woodcut Artist Lynd Ward's silent "Woodcut Novels" are powerful modern fables now praised by Comic artist but seldom recognized as comics.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.
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Scott McCloud considers this single panel like the one below comics.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.
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Most Art teachers consider Max Ernst's "Collage Novel,"A Week Of Kindness a comics masterpiece.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.[Check the correct box(es)] "For much of the century the word "comics" has had a negative connotations that many of comics' most devoted practitioners have preferred to be known as"...
- A.
Illustrators
- B.
Commercial Artists
- C.
Motion Art Scientists
- D.
Graphic Editors
- E.
Tommy John Surgeons
- F.
Cartoonists
- 18.
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Fill in the blank: When I (Scott McCloud) was in the _______, a friend of mine (who was a lot smarter than I was) convinced me to give comics another look and lent me his collection.- A.
12th Grade
- B.
Grad School
- C.
8th Grade
- D.
9th Grade
- 19.[Check the correct box(es)] At one time _________ recieved the same criticism and skeptism Comics receive.
- A.
Music
- B.
Written Word
- C.
Theatre
- D.
Visual Art
- E.
Film
- F.
Video
- 20.If we don't exclude photography from our definition, then half of America has been in comics at one time or another.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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