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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grade did Cage get in a college class the first time he wrote in the manner of Gertrude Stein?
(a) F.
(b) A.
(c) B.
(d) C.

2. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is "content, the continuity"?
(a) Form.
(b) Material.
(c) Structure.
(d) Method.

3. What is different about the type Cage uses for "Composition as Process--2: Indeterminacy"?
(a) It is large.
(b) The font changes half way through.
(c) No punctuation is used.
(d) It is small.

4. According to Cage, it would be act of charity for people to do what when they come across Erik Satie's records?
(a) Buy them.
(b) Give them as gifts.
(c) Steal them.
(d) Smash them.

5. Who asked Cage to discuss his "Music of Changes"?
(a) Franco Evangelisti.
(b) Luciano Berio.
(c) Henri Pousseur.
(d) Wolfgang Steinecke.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Erik Satie been dead when Cage wrote an essay about him?

2. What was the name of Cage's dentist, as stated in his story after "In This Day..."?

3. In the introduction to "Four Statements on the Dance," Cage recalls seeing unhappiness in what man's face because his music was rarely performed?

4. Cage recalls his Aunt Marge saying she loved what more than her husband?

5. What group asked Cage whether the American avant-garde followed the same direction as the European one?

(see the answer key)

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