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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 city?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Palo Alto.

3. In what month did Cage first present his lecture "45' for a Speaker"?
(a) May.
(b) August.
(c) April.
(d) October.

4. "Goal: New Music, New Dance" was first published in what year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1945.

5. In "45' for a Speaker" Cage says one danger for the magnetic tape is what type of music?
(a) Organ.
(b) Guitar.
(c) Violin.
(d) Banjo.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the introduction to "Four Statements on the Dance," Cage recalls commissioning the P.E. department at what school to play his music?

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

3. In the "Strategy" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term does Cage say "may be planned or improvised"?

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

5. Cage attended a party to which he was not invited and caused the hostess to fetch what drink from the basement?

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