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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What genre of art influenced Cage?
(a) Minimalism.
(b) New Realism.
(c) Dada.
(d) Victorian Revival.

2. What college was Cage attending when he took a course where he wrote in the manner of Gertrude Stein?
(a) Palo Alto College.
(b) Pomona College.
(c) Black Lake College.
(d) California State University.

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

4. What composer wrote "Intersection 3"?
(a) Julius Eastman.
(b) Earle Brown.
(c) Morton Feldman.
(d) Christian Wolff.

5. Who composed "Exercises de piano"?
(a) Schubert.
(b) Butor.
(c) Webern.
(d) Pousseur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Yun Kiang meet while rambling to the east?

2. A portion of "Composition as Process--3: Communication" was published in what publication?

3. When is Cage's foreword dated?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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