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Written response
1 point
What design term names the unoccupied area around and between visual elements?
Free Practice Quiz Question List
2 Composition and Visual Principles Online Quiz Questions
Use this free practice quiz with 20 questions to review 2 Composition and Visual Principles, test your knowledge, and prepare for your next test or exam.
20 questions
02
True or false
1 point
True or false: A composition must have identical halves to achieve balance.
- A
True
- B
False
03
Fill in the blank
1 point
When viewers group elements because they share traits such as color, shape, or type style, they are responding to the Gestalt principle of .
04
Choose one
1 point
A poster’s headline needs to stand out from small supporting text. Which change most directly uses contrast to create emphasis?
- A
Using the same size and weight for every element
- B
Making a headline much larger and lighter or darker than its supporting text
- C
Placing every element at the same distance from the frame edges
- D
Repeating a single color without variation
05
Written response
1 point
What Gestalt term describes people mentally completing an incomplete shape?
06
Fill in the blank
1 point
A designer places several text blocks along the same left edge to make a layout feel organized. This use of creates visual connections between the blocks.
07
Choose one
1 point
An icon is difficult to identify because its boundary blends into the surrounding background. Which visual-perception relationship is most directly unclear?
- A
Common region
- B
Continuation
- C
Figure and ground
- D
Repetition
08
True or false
1 point
True or false: To make two unrelated groups seem distinct, place them closer together and increase the space within each group.
- A
True
- B
False
09
Choose all
1 point
Select all three forms of balance described in the material.
- A
Symmetrical balance
- B
Asymmetrical balance
- C
Radial balance
- D
Proximity balance
- E
Alignment balance
10
Choose one
1 point
A layout uses directional shapes and changes in contrast to guide a viewer’s eye from the title toward a callout. Which principle describes the path being guided?
- A
The distribution of visual weight across a frame
- B
The path the eye follows through a design
- C
The unoccupied area around and between elements
- D
The use of shared edges to organize elements
11
Choose all
1 point
Select all layout choices that use a grouping cue to make relationships clearer.
- A
Place a label near the control it describes.
- B
Use one shared style for links that have the same role.
- C
Enclose related items within the same boundary.
- D
Cluster unrelated items tightly together and separate the related items.
12
Open ended
1 point
You are revising an event poster where the event name competes with the description, the date and venue look unrelated, and the text blocks feel scattered. Describe specific changes that would improve its hierarchy and organization, and explain how those changes help viewers.
13
Choose one
1 point
A designer places related controls inside one shaded panel while leaving unrelated controls outside it. Which principle most directly explains why viewers may perceive the enclosed controls as a group?
- A
Continuation
- B
Common region
- C
Figure and ground
- D
Radial balance
14
True or false
1 point
True or false: Composition principles are practical guides whose effectiveness depends on the message, audience, and context, rather than rigid rules that must always be followed.
- A
True
- B
False
15
Choose one
1 point
For an event poster, which layout choice would most clearly show that the date and venue belong together while separating them from the event description?
- A
Use the same font size for every poster element.
- B
Place the date and venue near each other, with more space before the description.
- C
Put the venue far from the date so each detail stands out independently.
- D
Enclose every line of text in a separate border.
16
Choose one
1 point
A brochure's headings and paragraphs seem scattered even though they use consistent fonts. Which revision most directly applies alignment to make the layout feel more organized?
- A
Vary the left edge of each heading and paragraph.
- B
Use color alone to connect the text blocks.
- C
Align the headings and text blocks along a shared edge.
- D
Arrange all text around a central point.
17
Choose one
1 point
A page has a large, pale image on the left and a small, vivid heading on the right. Which design judgment best explains how these different elements could still create balance?
- A
Use a small, vivid illustration on one side to balance a larger, quieter area on the other.
- B
Make both halves identical in size, color, and detail.
- C
Place every element at the same distance from the frame's center.
- D
Remove all contrast so no element has visual weight.
18
Choose one
1 point
A dashboard has several controls that should be perceived as one settings group. Which change most directly uses the common-region principle?
- A
Use different colors for each item, with no shared boundary.
- B
Place items at equal distances from the page edges.
- C
Connect the items with a repeated diagonal shape.
- D
Place the related items inside the same shaded panel.
19
Written response
1 point
What composition principle describes arranging elements around a central point, as in a circular diagram?
20
Written response
1 point
A layout repeats a set of marks regularly, but introduces small changes within that pattern to guide the viewer’s eye from one section to the next. What term names this eye-guiding effect?