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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The soul.
(b) The sensual.
(c) The temporal.
(d) The shadow.

2. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The man.
(c) The soul.
(d) The Word.

3. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The long forgotten wars.
(b) The machinations of men.
(c) The boarhound and the boar.
(d) The fixity of time.

4. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Lucid stillness.
(b) Transient beauty.
(c) Suggestive permanence.
(d) Affective aesthesis.

5. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The vacillation of spirit.
(b) The gyre of history.
(c) The eddies of time.
(d) The cold wind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

4. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?

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

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