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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Imaginary Landscape No. 4" was written for how many radios?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 8.

2. What composer wrote "The Art of the Fugue"?
(a) Ottorino Respighi.
(b) Johann Sebastian Bach.
(c) Karlheinz Stockhausen.
(d) Nikolai Medtner.

3. One of the questions Cage asked in "Composition as Process--3" was if anyone had seen this man lately?
(a) Christian Wolff.
(b) Arnold Schoenberg.
(c) Meister Eckhardt.
(d) David Tudor.

4. Who asked Cage why he did not give a conventional and informative lecture?
(a) Joanna Baillie.
(b) Pam Ayres.
(c) M. C. Richards.
(d) Elisaveta Bagryana.

5. The essay "Composition: To Describe the Process of Composition Used in 'Music of Changes' and 'Imaginary Landscape No. 4'" was originally published in what year?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1952.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cage thank at the end of his foreword?

2. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is music's "divisibility into successive parts from phrases to long sections"?

3. What composer wrote "Indices"?

4. "Forerunners of Modern Music" was first published in what year?

5. In what state was "The Future of Music: Credo" first printed?

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