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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "Experimental Music" first presented?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1939.

2. What female author did Cage ask Dr. Suzuki about at dinner?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Charlotte Brontë.
(d) Louisa May Alcott.

3. Cage had a method for bringing about unpredictability where he tossed coins how many times?
(a) Two times.
(b) Six times.
(c) Four times.
(d) Three times.

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

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) 1952.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cage's essay on him, Erik Satie was told he would "see" when he was how old?

2. What grade was Cage in when his dad mentioned a trip to another country, which never happened?

3. How much time elapsed between the two times Yun Kiang met a man acting like an animal?

4. One of the questions Cage asked in "Composition as Process--3" was if anyone had seen this man lately?

5. According to Cage's essay, Erik Satie said he was tired of dying of what?

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