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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "Experimental Music" first presented?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1945.

2. Who composed "Exercises de piano"?
(a) Webern.
(b) Schubert.
(c) Pousseur.
(d) Butor.

3. What composer wrote "The Art of the Fugue"?
(a) Ottorino Respighi.
(b) Nikolai Medtner.
(c) Johann Sebastian Bach.
(d) Karlheinz Stockhausen.

4. 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) Palo Alto.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

5. When is Cage's foreword dated?
(a) June 1961.
(b) May 1959.
(c) April 1958.
(d) July 1962.

6. "Edgard Varese" was first published in what publication?
(a) Musical Traditions.
(b) Muzica Moderna.
(c) Critical Musicology Journal.
(d) Nutida Musik.

7. Cage had a method for bringing about unpredictability where he tossed coins how many times?
(a) Two times.
(b) Six times.
(c) Four times.
(d) Three times.

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

9. What is different about the type Cage uses for "Composition as Process--2: Indeterminacy"?
(a) The font changes half way through.
(b) No punctuation is used.
(c) It is small.
(d) It is large.

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

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

12. What composer wrote "Duo II for Pianists"?
(a) Christian Wolff.
(b) Earle Brown.
(c) Morton Feldman.
(d) Julius Eastman.

13. One of the questions Cage asked in "Composition as Process--3" was if anyone had seen this man lately?
(a) David Tudor.
(b) Arnold Schoenberg.
(c) Meister Eckhardt.
(d) Christian Wolff.

14. What religion influenced Cage?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Islam.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Buddhism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked Cage why he did not give a conventional and informative lecture?

2. Who said, "John, I dearly love you, but I can't bear another minute"?

3. Cage says in his foreword that he has been writing articles and giving lectures for over how many years?

4. Who wrote "Psychology--never again"?

5. In the "Definitions" section of "Forerunners of Modern Music," what term is "sound and silence"?

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