Illustrator Beginner’s Quiz

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To select an entire shape / object what tool would you use? Choose the best answer.

Hand tool

Selection Tool (Black Arrow)

Direct Selection tool (White Arrow)

Group Selection tool

How would you select an object that had no fill or stroke? Choose all answers that apply.

Drag a Marquee around where you think it is using the Selection Tool

Move the Selection tool over where you believe the object to be and when it reacts to the cursor click on the path

View in Outline Mode and use the Selection Tool to click on the objects path.

from the menu choose Select > Object > No Fill / Stroke

How would you get out of Outline View Mode. Choose all answers that apply.

Ctrl + Y (Windows) | Mac + Y (Mac)

CTRL + A (Window) | CMD + A (Mac)

From the menu choose View > GPU Preview

Choose menu View > Screen Mode > Normal Screen Mode

When you have selected an object with the Selection Tool you get the bounding box. What transformations can you do with the bounding box?

scale, resize, rotate

shear, rotate, scale

scale, distort, perspective distort, rotate

rotate, warp, scale

You want to create a perfect square using the Rectangle tool or a perfect circle using the Elipse tool. What modifier key do you hold down while dragging out your shape. Choose the best answer.

Alt (Windows) | Option (Mac)

Ctrl (Window) | Cmd (Mac)

Ctrl + Shift (Windows) | Cmd + SHIFT (Mac)

Shift

What modifier key can you use to allow to reposition a shape WHILE you are still drawing?

Space Bar

Shift

Tab

Tilde

Option (Mac) | Alt (Windows)

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How do you reset the point of origin on the rulers? Choose the best answer.

From the menu choose Windows > Ruler > Reset

Double click the cross hair symbol where the top and left rulers cross

From the menu choose View > Ruler > Reset

Right click the top ruler and choose Reset

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What methods will let you duplicate a shape. Choose the best answer.

Select the shape and the Ctrl + C (Windows) | Cmd + C (Mac) to copy and Then Ctrl + V (Windows ) | Cmd + V (Mac) to paste

Right-click the shape and from the resulting context menu choose copy, then right-click the artboard and choose paste.

All choices are correct

Alt + Drag the shape (Windows) | Option Drag (Mac) the shape (Mac)

How do you make an equal-sided triangle using Illustator's Shape Tools. Choose all answers that apply.

Illustrator doesn't have a triangle tool

Choose the Polygon tool click on the artboard and in in the resulting Polygon dialog box enter 3 in the Sides field, then click OK

Select the polygon tool, click on the artboard and start to drag, before letting go of the mouse hit the down arrow on the keyboard a couple of times till you see your shape turn into a triangle.

Draw a square and delete one of the corner anchor points

What modifying key would you hold down while drawing a star to get the star pictured on the right (where the center has been been constrained but the arms drawn out further). Choose the best answer.

Shift

Ctrl (Windows) | Cmd (Mac)

Alt (Windows) | Option (Mac)

Tilde

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How do you switch from the basic to the advanced toolbar. Choose all answers that apply.

Click the edit tool bar button (3 dots at the bottom of the bar), then click the panel options and choose Advanced.

From the menu choose Windows > Toolbars > Advanced

From the menu choose View > Toolbars > Advanced

Right-click on the artboard and choose Advanced toolbar from the context menu

Where can you enable/disenable Scale Stroke & Effects? Choose the best answer.

Scale panel options

Edit > Preferences > General

All Answers are Correct

Transform panel options

In the Illustration to the right, the original rectangle is transformed with the Scale, Stroke and Effects option enabled. Which new rectangle is the result.?

A

B

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When making a clipping mask what objects would be suitable for making the part that masks the objects below? Check all that apply

Text

Vector Shape

Raster Image

Compound Path

Which type tool will let you move rotate, resize and even overlap individual letters while still leaving the text as a whole editable? Choose the best Answer

Touch Type Tool

Type Adjustment Tool

Type Tool

Vertical Type on a Path

 

 

 

How can you change your view so your entire artboard shows as large as possible.

Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + 0 (Windows) | Cmd + 0 (Mac)

All Answers are correct

Double click the hand tool

Double click the Zoom tool

Can you rotate the artboard 45 degrees? Choose all correct answers

yes - choose the rotate view tool and hold the shift key down to constain the rotation to 15 degree increments and watch your smart guides to know when you are at 45 degrees

Choose View > Rotate View and the choose 45 degrees from the flyout options

You can rotate but only freely you can't specify degrees

no - the only choices are landscape and portrait

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Which selection tool will allow you to select all objects that have the same appearance / attributes at once

Oject Selection tool

Magic Wand tool

Direct Selection tool

Group Selection

How do you copy an artboard (and everything on it). Choose all answers that apply.

Select an artboard with the Artboard tool and then Alt + drag (Windows) | Opt + drag (Mac) the art board. Make sure the Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard is enabled from the Control panel options.

Open the artboard panel and click the new artboard button

Select the Artboard with the Artboard tool and use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C (Windows) | Cmd + C ( Mac) to copy and then Ctrl + V (Windows) | Cmd + V (Mac) to paste.

Open the Artboard panel and drag the artboard you wish to copy on top of the new artboard (plus sign) button.

When making a compound shape of a bunch of concentric object different winding rules (found on the Attributes panel) give different results. For the object "B"s in the image which winding rule was used.

Non Zero Winding Fill Rule

Even / Odd Fill Rule

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How do you set a single layer to show in outline view and have other layers display normally? Choose the best answer.

Not possible showing things in outline view is a menu level change

In the Layers panel Ctrl +Click (Windows) | Cmd + Click (Mac) the icon icon next to the layer you want to show in out line mode.

Under the menu choose view > Outline > Selected Layer

In the Layers panel Alt + Click (Windows) | Opt + Click (Mac) the icon icon next to the layer you want to show in out line mode.

What are the three types of rounded corners in Illustrator? Choose the best answer

Round, Inverted, Straight

Round, Inverted Round, Chamfer

Normal, Inverted Round, Obverse

Round, Obverse Round, Chamfer

You are exporting a transparent graphic for a website. What format do you definitely NOT use.

png-8

gif

png-24

jpg

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