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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time elapsed between the two times Yun Kiang met a man acting like an animal?
(a) Four years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

2. 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) Steal them.
(c) Smash them.
(d) Give them as gifts.

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

4. According to Cage, what was the method for bringing about unpredictability?
(a) R-Ching.
(b) I-Ching.
(c) A-Ching.
(d) L-Ching.

5. Cage recalls his Aunt Marge saying she loved what more than her husband?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Her television.
(c) Her washing machine.
(d) Her car.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Cage recalls going to the Bolshoi Ballet with whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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