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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Cage first present his lecture "45' for a Speaker"?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1951.

2. The essay "Composition: To Describe the Process of Composition Used in 'Music of Changes' and 'Imaginary Landscape No. 4'" was originally published in what year?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1939.

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

4. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is music's "divisibility into successive parts from phrases to long sections"?
(a) Material.
(b) Method.
(c) Structure.
(d) Form.

5. What country did Cage's dad falsely say the family would visit?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) France.
(c) Japan.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. "On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work" was completed it what year?

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

3. In "Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?" Cage recalls having an appointment on what day?

4. Meister Eckhart said in sermons that he would like to be rid of what?

5. In an after-note to "Lecture on Nothing," the author gets the audience to stop asking questions by answering with how many standardized answers?

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