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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Words.
(b) Truths.
(c) Men.
(d) Societies.

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Sense.
(b) Faith.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Thought.

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

4. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The bedded axle-tree.
(b) The artery of truth.
(c) The still point of the turning world.
(d) The memory of inveterate scars.

5. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of ineffable sound.
(c) The world of lachrymose souls.
(d) The world without man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

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

4. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

5. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

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