(p.299 & 301) ________ fills are graduated blends of two or more colors.

(p.299) With the ________ tool you can blend the shapes and colors of objects together into a new blended object or a series of intermediate shapes.

(p.301) A gradient ________ is the point at which a gradient changes from one color to the next.

(p.301) The default gradient fill is a ________ gradient.

(p.302) The tip of a gradient stop appears darker to indicate that it's________.

(p.303) To display only gradient swatches in the Swatches panel, click the ________ menu button at the bottom of the Swatches panel and choose Show Gradient Swatches from the menu.

(p.304) Holding down the ________ key while dragging constrains a gradient to 45 degree angles.

(p.304) When using the Gradient tool, dragging within a rectangle creates a short gradient with distinct color blends; dragging a longer distance outside the rectangle creates a longer gradient with more ________ color blends.

(p.305) You can create ________ or radial gradients; both types of gradients have a starting and an ending color.

(p.305) With a ________ gradient, the starting color of the gradient defines the center point of the fill, which radiates outward to the ending color.

(p.308) Every gradient in Illustrator has at least ________ color stops.

(p.309) You can apply a gradient to multiple objects by first ________ all the objects, then applying a gradient color, and then dragging across the objects with the Gradient tool.

(p.309) Type has to be converted to path ________ before you can fill it with a gradient.

(p.310) After converting type to outlines, by ________ the letters you can fill each letter with the same gradient at once.

(p.311) When you add a color stop, a new ________ appears above the gradient slider to mark the color's new midpoint.

(p.311) You can delete a color in a gradient by dragging its gradient stop downward and out of the Gradient panel.

(p.311) Other ways to apply a color to a gradient are to sample the color from the artwork using the Eyedropper tool, or drag a color ________ onto a color stop.

(p.312) Shift-clicking with the ________ tool applies a color sample to a selected gradient box (stop) in the gradient rather than replacing the entire gradient with the color in the selected artwork.

(p.313) You can define the ________ of colors used in gradients; by specifying different values for the different color stops in your gradient, you can create gradients that fade in or out and show or hide underlying images.

(p.315) You can ________ two distinct objects to create and distribute shapes evenly between two objects.

(p.315) When you create a blend, the blended objects are treated as one object, called a(n) ________.

(p.315) Which of the following is not a spacing option for a blend:

(p.318) Blended objects are considered a single blend object; if you need to edit any of the separate shapes of a blend object, you can ________ the blend, which converts the blend to individual objects.

(p.319) When you choose the Smooth Color blend option, Illustrator combines the shapes and colors of the objects into many ________ steps, creating a smooth graduated blend between the original objects.

(p.319) To remove a blend and revert back to just the two original objects, select the blend and choose Object > Blend > ________.

(p.319) Objects that have strokes blend exactly the same as those that have no stroke.