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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the "Strategy" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term does Cage say "is properly mind-controlled"?
(a) Method.
(b) Material.
(c) Form.
(d) Structure.

2. When was "Experimental Music" first printed?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1934.

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

4. Who does Cage thank at the end of his foreword?
(a) Richard K. Winslow.
(b) Benjamin Britten.
(c) Ernest Bloch.
(d) Leonard Bernstein.

5. "Edgard Varese" was first published in what year?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What university published Cage's book of lectures and essays?

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

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

5. "Edgard Varese" was first published in what publication?

(see the answer key)

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