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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memory.
(b) Dust.
(c) The bird.
(d) Time future.

2. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Time.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

3. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Fairies.
(b) Children.
(c) Memories.
(d) Whispers.

4. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The passion.
(b) The sound.
(c) The emotion.
(d) The form.

5. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The stars.
(b) The turning world.
(c) The summer leaf.
(d) The moving tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

3. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

4. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

5. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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