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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Burnt Norton.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of sense.
(b) The world of solitude.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of spirit.

2. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) The clematis.
(c) Wind.
(d) Yew.

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The piano.
(b) The violin.
(c) The organ.
(d) The cello.

4. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) An unrealized actuality.
(b) A perpetual possibility.
(c) A frivolous thought.
(d) A passive potency.

5. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Time future.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Disaffection.
(d) Stillness.

Short Answer Questions

1. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

2. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

4. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

5. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

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