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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Forerunners of Modern Music" was first published in what year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1949.

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

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

4. According to Cage's essay on him, Erik Satie said who was not clumsy in his publicity?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Bach.
(d) Cage.

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

6. Who wrote "Quantitaten"?
(a) Karlheinz Stockhausen.
(b) Pierre Boulez.
(c) Ottorino Respighi.
(d) Bo Nilsson.

7. What male author did Cage ask Dr. Suzuki about at dinner?
(a) Graham Greene.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) George Orwell.
(d) James Joyce.

8. In the "Strategy" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term does Cage say "may be controlled or not, as one chooses"?
(a) Method.
(b) Material.
(c) Structure.
(d) Form.

9. What female author did Cage ask Dr. Suzuki about at dinner?
(a) George Eliot.
(b) Louisa May Alcott.
(c) Charlotte Brontë.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

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

11. What grade did Cage get in a college class the first time he wrote in the manner of Gertrude Stein?
(a) A.
(b) C.
(c) F.
(d) B.

12. "Imaginary Landscape No. 4" was written for how many radios?
(a) 8.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

13. According to Cage, it would be act of charity for people to do what when they come across Erik Satie's records?
(a) Give them as gifts.
(b) Buy them.
(c) Smash them.
(d) Steal them.

14. Who is the author of "Essay on Rime"?
(a) Andrea Del Gato.
(b) Samuel Gallina.
(c) Jesse Simpson.
(d) Karl Shapiro.

15. According to Cage's essay on him, Erik Satie was told he would "see" when he was how old?
(a) 60.
(b) 70.
(c) 50.
(d) 80.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre of art influenced Cage?

2. What religion influenced Cage?

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

4. What group asked Cage whether the American avant-garde followed the same direction as the European one?

5. In what state was "The Future of Music: Credo" first printed?

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