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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Whispered prayers.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Lies.
(d) Wind.

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) Itself unmoving.
(b) The quick of movement.
(c) Not in itself desirable.
(d) The cause and end of movement.

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

4. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Explicit.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Implicit.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

3. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

4. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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