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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was "Composition: To Describe the Process of Composition Used in 'Music for Piano" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1961.

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

4. When is Cage's foreword dated?
(a) July 1962.
(b) May 1959.
(c) June 1961.
(d) April 1958.

5. When was "Experimental Music" first presented?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Essay on Rime"?

2. Cage recalls his Aunt Marge saying she loved what more than her husband?

3. Who asked Cage to discuss his "Music of Changes"?

4. Who composed "Exercises de piano"?

5. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is music's "divisibility into successive parts from phrases to long sections"?

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