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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cage attended but was not invited to a party at what family's home?
(a) The Johnsons.
(b) The Andersons.
(c) The Reises.
(d) The Callahans.

2. Meister Eckhart said in sermons that he would like to be rid of what?
(a) The idea of good and evil.
(b) Sin.
(c) Salvation.
(d) God.

3. In the "Strategy" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term does Cage say "may be planned or improvised"?
(a) Material.
(b) Form.
(c) Method.
(d) Structure.

4. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is "sound and silence"?
(a) Material.
(b) Method.
(c) Structure.
(d) Form.

5. In what state was "Composition: To Describe the Process of Composition Used in 'Music for Piano'" first printed in English?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Maryland.
(c) New York.
(d) Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said there is evil in the world "to thicken the plot"?

2. In what state does Cage say he grew up?

3. "Forerunners of Modern Music" was first published in what year?

4. In what year did Cage first present his lecture "45' for a Speaker"?

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

(see the answer key)

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