Harvest Private School Name:------Class:-8/------Paper 2 (Reading & Writing) P.O.BOX : 4328 Subject:-English-First Evaluation-First Term Ras Al Khaimah , Scholastic year:-2017-2018 United Arab Emirates Vision of the school :To be the best choice for any parent who seeks to achieve the best educational service for his/ her children

Read the magazine article below. Then answer the questions. A Short History of the

i. The history of the comic book really begins in the early part of the 20th century. At that time, full color newspaper comics were very popular in the United States. By the 1920s, businessmen and artists such as began to re-print newspaper comics in the form of small magazines, or comic books. Later on, comic book publishers began hiring artists to create original art and stories for their comic books.

ii. In 1938, Jerry Siegel and created , the world's first superhero. Others soon followed, including a hero created by Will Eisner called The Spirit. By the 1950s stories about superheroes dominated the comic book field. This dominance became much greater in the early 1960s when Marvel Comics, led by , created such famous superheroes as Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Daredevil.

iii. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the next major development in the history of comic books took place: the graphic novel. Unlike the typical 20-page stories found in older comics, graphic novels, such as Alan Moore's Watchmen, and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight, were boo k length stories in comic form created for adults.

iv. Comic books and graphic novels have continued to grow in popularity, and have expanded to other art forms. Movies based on comic book characters, such as Spider-Man (2002) and The Dark Knight (2008) rank in the top 10 movies of all time in terms of ticket sales. In fact, comic book heroes are so popular, that the Walt Disney Company recently purchased Marvel Comics for $4 billion dollars, just so it could have access to the company's 5,000 different characters.

1-According to the article, around what year did comics first become popular? a. around 1900 b. around 1920 c. around 1930 d. around 1940

2- According to the article, which of the following characters was the first superhero? a. b. Superman c. Spider -Man d. The Incredible Hulk

Harvest Private School Name:------Class:-8/------Paper 2 (Reading & Writing) P.O.BOX : 4328 Subject:-English-First Evaluation-First Term Ras Al Khaimah , Scholastic year:-2017-2018 United Arab Emirates Vision of the school :To be the best choice for any parent who seeks to achieve the best educational service for his/ her children

3- According to the article, which of the following authors has written a graphic novel? a. Stan Lee b. Joe Shuster c. Jerry Siegel d. Alan Moore

4- According to the article, why did the Walt Disney Company buy Marvel Comics? a. because they wanted to own all of Marvel's superheroes b. because they wanted to produce comic books and graphic novels c. because movies based on comic book heroes make a lot of money d. because comic books and graphic novels are becoming more popular

5- Based on the information in the article, which of the following people is PROBABLY the most important person in the history of comic books? a. Stan Lee b. Wi l l Eisner c. Alan Moore d. Frank Miller

6- According to the article, how are graphic novels and comic books different? a. Graphic novels are longer than comic books b. Graphic novels are not as popular as comic books c. Comic books are cheaper than graphic novels d. Comic books are easier to read than graphic novels 7-. In which paragraph would the following sentence belong? "Newspaper comics were especially popular with children." a. Paragraph I b. Paragraph 2 c. Paragraph 3 d. Paragraph 4