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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "Forerunners of Modern Music" was first published in what year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1949.

3. In what month were all three parts of "Composition as Process" given?
(a) July,
(b) September.
(c) May.
(d) January.

4. In what year were all three parts of "Composition as Process" given?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1945.

5. Cage presented "Lecture on Nothing" at a club on what street?
(a) Tenth.
(b) Ninth.
(c) Eleventh.
(d) Eighth.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What genre of art influenced Cage?

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

5. What grade was Cage in when his dad mentioned a trip to another country, which never happened?

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