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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 was Cage in when his dad mentioned a trip to another country, which never happened?
(a) 5th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 3rd.

2. What was the name of Cage's dentist, as stated in his story after "In This Day..."?
(a) Dr. Heyman.
(b) Dr. Harrison.
(c) Dr. Crogan.
(d) Dr. Adams.

3. Yun Kiang met a man who acted like what animal?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A rabbit.

4. In the introduction to "Four Statements on the Dance," Cage recalls commissioning the P.E. department at what school to play his music?
(a) FSC.
(b) UGA.
(c) UCLA.
(d) NYU.

5. Who wrote "Quantitaten"?
(a) Ottorino Respighi.
(b) Pierre Boulez.
(c) Bo Nilsson.
(d) Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Short Answer Questions

1. All three parts of "Composition as Process" were given in what country?

2. What two things does Cage say he grew up assuming were good for him?

3. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is "sound and silence"?

4. Who asked Cage why he did not give a conventional and informative lecture?

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

(see the answer key)

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