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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanied Cage and eight children on a trip to a zoo?
(a) Merce Cunningham.
(b) Claire Austen.
(c) Christina Linus.
(d) Barbara Lawson.

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

3. How much time elapsed between the two times Yun Kiang met a man acting like an animal?
(a) Two years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Four years.
(d) One year.

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

5. Where did Cage recall taking eight children to a zoo?
(a) Bear Lake Park.
(b) Bear Lake Mountain.
(c) Bear Mountain Lake.
(d) Bear Mountain Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Quantitaten"?

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

3. What composer wrote "Indices"?

4. What is different about the type Cage uses for "Composition as Process--2: Indeterminacy"?

5. In what year were all three parts of "Composition as Process" given?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cage describe the process by which he created a piece of music scored for twelve radios?

2. Describe what Cage said about the French and the Italians in a conversation he recalls having at a Venetian restaurant.

3. Why is each column in "Composition as Process--1: Changes" interrupted by space without words?

4. Why does Cage say that compositions indeterminate with respect to their performance are by definition experimental?

5. In the book's Foreword, how does Cage describe the way the writings and lectures in his book are written and presented?

6. How has Cage's process of composition evolved?

7. What does Cage comment on in the article "Forerunners of Modern Music"?

8. How did painter Willem de Kooning respond when asked what painters of the past had influenced him?

9. How does Cage think most people feel about experimentation?

10. What does Cage say about Erik Satie's relevance?

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