Four Quartets | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Burnt Norton

1. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

All of time.

2. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

A perpetual possibility.

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

The memory.

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

The rose-garden.

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

Dust.

6. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

Other echoes.

7. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

A thrush.

8. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

The shrubbery.

9. Which flowers...
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