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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. In what year did Cage's essay on Erik Satie first appear?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1951.
2. What female author did Cage ask Dr. Suzuki about at dinner?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Louisa May Alcott.
(c) Charlotte Brontë.
(d) George Eliot.
3. What grade did Cage get in a college class the first time he wrote in the manner of Gertrude Stein?
(a) B.
(b) C.
(c) F.
(d) A.
4. What genre of art influenced Cage?
(a) Minimalism.
(b) New Realism.
(c) Dada.
(d) Victorian Revival.
5. "Forerunners of Modern Music" was first published in what journal?
(a) The Crow's Beak.
(b) The Tiger's Eye.
(c) The Lion's Paw.
(d) The Shark's Tooth.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote "Quantitaten"?
2. When was "The Future of Music: Credo" first presented?
3. In what year were all three parts of "Composition as Process" given?
4. What composer wrote "Intersection 3"?
5. In the "Strategy" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term does Cage say "may be planned or improvised"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Cage answer his own question about whether music can be composed without writing it in pencil or ink?
2. What happened to Cage when he and Xenia went to New York, expecting to stay with a friend named Max?
3. Why does the author say he is grateful to Richard K. Winslow?
4. Describe what Cage said about the French and the Italians in a conversation he recalls having at a Venetian restaurant.
5. What advancements in music does Cage attribute to Henry Cowell?
6. Why does Cage format "Erik Satie" in a way where he and Satie never hear what the other is saying?
7. How does Cage go about exploring the work of each composer he mentions in "Composition as Process--2: Indeterminacy"?
8. What does Cage say about being associated with Dadaism and Zen in his Foreword?
9. How has Cage's process of composition evolved?
10. What does Cage say about finding facts on the life and work of Edgard Varese?
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