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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Frivolity.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Obstinacy.
(d) Appetency.

2. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Time future.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Disaffection.
(d) Stillness.

3. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Sincerity.
(b) Opulence.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Stillness.

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

5. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) Men's minds.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Time.
(d) The wind.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

5. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

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