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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grade was Cage in when his dad mentioned a trip to another country, which never happened?
(a) 5th.
(b) 3rd.
(c) 6th.
(d) 4th.

2. According to Cage, who had probably never given Erik Satie a thought?
(a) Nikolai Medtner.
(b) Ottorino Respighi.
(c) Karlheinz Stockhausen.
(d) Manuel de Falla.

3. According to Cage's essay, Erik Satie said he was tired of dying of what?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) The flu.
(d) A broken heart.

4. One of the questions Cage asked in "Composition as Process--3" was if anyone had seen this man lately?
(a) Christian Wolff.
(b) Meister Eckhardt.
(c) David Tudor.
(d) Arnold Schoenberg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cage's essay on him, Erik Satie said who was not clumsy in his publicity?

2. What college was Cage attending when he took a course where he wrote in the manner of Gertrude Stein?

3. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is "content, the continuity"?

4. According to Cage, "Forerunners of Modern Music" was translated into another language by whom?

5. What did Cage question about Erik Satie?

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