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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Cage recalls going to the Bolshoi Ballet with whom?
(a) Arnold Schoenberg.
(b) M. C. Richards.
(c) Erik Satie.
(d) David Tudor.

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

4. All three parts of "Composition as Process" were given in what country?
(a) Austria.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

5. What was Cage's wife's name?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Xenia.
(c) Fiona.
(d) Sonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What composer wrote "Duo II for Pianists"?

2. When was "Experimental Music" first printed?

3. What grade did Cage get in a college class the first time he wrote in the manner of Gertrude Stein?

4. When was "Experimental Music" first presented?

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

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