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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1939.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1952.

2. Who asked Cage why he did not give a conventional and informative lecture?
(a) Joanna Baillie.
(b) Elisaveta Bagryana.
(c) Pam Ayres.
(d) M. C. Richards.

3. According to Cage, "Forerunners of Modern Music" was translated into another language by whom?
(a) John Mansell.
(b) Carlos Hernandez.
(c) Marcel Connor.
(d) Frederick Goldbeck.

4. "The Future of Music: Credo" was first printed to accompany a recording from whom?
(a) John Helen.
(b) George Avakian.
(c) Adam White.
(d) Samuel Sawnee.

5. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is "content, the continuity"?
(a) Form.
(b) Structure.
(c) Method.
(d) Material.

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

7. Who composed "Exercises de piano"?
(a) Butor.
(b) Schubert.
(c) Webern.
(d) Pousseur.

8. What college was Cage attending when he took a course where he wrote in the manner of Gertrude Stein?
(a) Black Lake College.
(b) Palo Alto College.
(c) California State University.
(d) Pomona College.

9. In what year did Cage's essay on Erik Satie first appear?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1958.

10. Cage says in his foreword that he has been writing articles and giving lectures for over how many years?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 25.

11. What composer wrote "The Art of the Fugue"?
(a) Nikolai Medtner.
(b) Karlheinz Stockhausen.
(c) Ottorino Respighi.
(d) Johann Sebastian Bach.

12. Who said there is evil in the world "to thicken the plot"?
(a) Sri Ramakrishna.
(b) Swami Vivekananda.
(c) Sai Baba .
(d) Sri Chandrashekarendra.

13. What would Cage rather do than write about Erik Satie?
(a) Gather mushrooms.
(b) Grab a drink with friends.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Work on his music.

14. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is "the means of controlling the continuity from note to note"?
(a) Form.
(b) Method.
(c) Material.
(d) Structure.

15. Who asked Cage to discuss his "Music of Changes"?
(a) Henri Pousseur.
(b) Franco Evangelisti.
(c) Luciano Berio.
(d) Wolfgang Steinecke.

Short Answer Questions

1. All three parts of "Composition as Process" were given in what country?

2. In what month were all three parts of "Composition as Process" given?

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

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

5. Cage recalls going to the Bolshoi Ballet with whom?

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