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Illustrator Chapter 2 (EXAM)

 1. 

The Hide Selection command and the Show All command are both on the ____________________ menu.
 

 

 2. 

The point at which two colors in a gradient meet is called what?
a.
the midpoint
b.
the starting color
c.
the ending color
d.
the color stop
 

 3. 

Once text is flowed onto a path, only its typeface and type size can be modified.
 

 4. 

You can modify the tracking between letter pairs.
 

 5. 

When text is flowed on a path, which feature of the Character panel allows you to increase or decrease the distance of the text from the path?
a.
vertical scale
b.
baseline shift
c.
the Offset Path command
d.
none of the above
 

 6. 

Text flowed on a curved line will often require kerning, especially when it is set at a large point size.
 

 7. 

Locked objects can be selected, but they can't be moved or modified.
 

 8. 

The location of a midpoint in a gradient can be changed.
 

 9. 

The command to show the Character panel is on the ____________________ menu.
 

 

 10. 

When you click the Show All command, all the hidden objects are selected when they are revealed.
 
 
Case Based Critical Thinking

Mark’s design team has taken on a number of projects that involve display text and gradients. Mark considers typography to be a fine art, and he thinks that gradients are often a very effective component of good Illustrator design, so he is excited to take this opportunity to put his team through typography and gradient boot camp.
 

 11. 

One of Mark’s designers is having difficulty with tracking and kerning - specifically, when to use tracking and when to use kerning. Mark asks four other designers to provide an analogy for tracking and kerning. He is pleased with all four analogies, but he says that the best of the four analogies is that tracking is to kerning as ________.
a.
group is to individual
c.
book ends are to books
b.
hugging is to pinching
d.
brushing is to flossing
 

 12. 

The specification for all body copy in a series of ten related fliers - all designed in Illustrator -   calls for 11pt type with 12.5pts leading and -10 tracking. One of the designers flows body copy text into the main text box on flier number five, formats it, then realizes that one paragraph is overflowing the text box. He tells Mark how he solved the problem, and Mark tells him that, of all the choices he had for fitting the text, he chose the worst option in terms of the overall design of the total project of ten fliers. The designer’s bad choice was to ________.
a.
reduce the overall leading
c.
increase the tracking
b.
reduce the point size of the body copy
 

 13. 

Mark considers gradients to be an important design component for many types of Illustrator artwork. He tells his team that gradients can be ________.
a.
radial or linear
c.
used to fill multiple objects simultaneously
b.
made of multiple colors
d.
all of the above
 

 14. 

One project that the team is working on involves display type that will appear very large on a billboard. Mark tells the team that, of all the ways to modify text in Illustrator, ____________ is the most essential for perfecting large display type.
a.
baseline shift
c.
horizontal/vertical scaling
b.
kerning
d.
tracking
 

 15. 

Mark knows that his designers aren’t programmers, but he feels it’s important that a designer has some amount of understanding of how a program works. He asks his team that, working in Illustrator, if they wanted to create a linear gradient but couldn’t use any of the  gradient tools, they could create the gradient with which of the following ________.
a.
filled rectangles
c.
both a and b
b.
stroked lines
 

 16. 

Once a word has been tracked, you can no longer apply kerning.
 

 17. 

In a radial gradient, the starting color appears where?
a.
it depends on how the Gradient tool is applied
b.
at the outside edge of the gradient
c.
at the center of the gradient
d.
halfway between the center and the edge of the gradient
 

 18. 

By default, guides in Illustrator are blue; you cannot change their color.
 

 19. 

When text on a path is "flipped," it does what?
a.
It runs in the opposite direction on the opposite side of the path.
b.
It is rotated 360 degrees.
c.
It is copied over an imaginary vertical or horizontal axis.
d.
It runs in the same direction on the opposite side of the path.
 

 20. 

The Stroke panel is where you move sliders to mix new colors for fills, strokes, and gradients.
 

 21. 

You can quickly change font, type size, kerning and other text attributes where?
a.
the Paragraph panel
b.
the Type panel
c.
the Type menu
d.
the Character panel
 

 22. 

Positive tracking or kerning values move text characters closer together.
 

 23. 

Even after text is converted to outlines, you can still change the typeface.
 

 24. 

Once text is flowed into an object, you can no longer manipulate the object as you would have previously.
 

 25. 

The Unlock All command is under which menu on the menu bar?
a.
Edit
b.
Select
c.
Window
d.
Object
 

 26. 

When text is flowed into an object, which alignment often is the best solution?
a.
center
b.
justified
c.
right
d.
left
 

 27. 

You can define the angle of a radial gradient in the Gradient panel.
 

 28. 

The midpoint, by definition, must be positioned evenly between the starting and ending colors of a gradient.
 

 29. 

The midpoint is identified on the gradient slider by a triangle.
 
 
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 30. 

In the above figure, a 50% vertical scale has been applied to the text. This means that the text was shorter before the scale was applied.
 

 31. 

To move text along a path, you use the start and end bracket, and midpoint bracket.
 

 32. 

Text is flipped across a path by doing what?
a.
Dragging the starting bracket down
b.
Double-clicking the Rotate tool
c.
Dragging the center bracket straight up
d.
Double-clicking the Reflect tool
 

 33. 

When locked objects are unlocked, they are all selected.
 

 34. 

When you click the Gradient tool, the gradient control bar appears in the object itself.
 

 35. 

Text generated by the Type tool is positioned on a path called what?
a.
baseline
b.
type index
c.
text path
d.
stroke line
 

 36. 

When you click a type tool cursor on text, then apply the Select All command, ____.
a.
the text and the object that contains the text are both selected
b.
all the text in the single text object is selected
c.
all the text objects on the page are selected
d.
all of the objects on the artboard are selected
 

 37. 

Guides preferences are listed under which category?
a.
Guides & Increments
b.
Units & Guides
c.
Guides & Grid
d.
View Guides
 

 38. 

You can change the stacking order by moving objects forward and backward through the stack, one object at a time.
 

 39. 

Text preferences are listed under what category?
a.
Type & Grid
b.
Type
c.
Guides & Grid
d.
Units & Undo
 

 40. 

In typography, the term for the vertical space between baselines in a block of text is called what?
a.
kerning
b.
baseline shift
c.
leading
d.
tracking
 

 41. 

When you float your cursor near the endpoint of the gradient control bar, the ____ icon appears.
a.
scale
b.
copy
c.
rotate
d.
flip
 

 42. 

A linear gradient can be positioned from left to right, top to bottom, or on any angle.
 

 43. 

When you copy text on a path, ____.
a.
you copy the text only
b.
you copy both the text and the path
c.
you copy the path only; the text must be reentered
d.
none of the above
 

 44. 

Hiding objects is one way of making it easier to select objects on the artboard.
 

 45. 

You can turn any object into a guide by clicking which command?
a.
Convert to Outlines
b.
Make Guides
c.
Release Guides
d.
Show Guides
 

 46. 

Which of the following is the best comparison to a radial gradient?
a.
a series of concentric circles
b.
a circle
c.
a small circle within a big circle
d.
a chain of interlocked circles
 

 47. 

Text in Illustrator can never be positioned upside down.
 

 48. 

A blend is a graduated transition between two or more colors used to fill an object or multiple objects.
 

 49. 

An imported Swatches panel is editable.
 

 50. 

The order in which objects on the artboard overlap - from front to back - is called what?
a.
blending mode
b.
the layers hierarchy
c.
layers
d.
the stacking order
 



 
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