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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The sight.
(b) The past.
(c) The future.
(d) The pattern.

2. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) Possibility.
(b) Time future.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) The bird.

3. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The moving tree.
(b) The turning world.
(c) The summer leaf.
(d) The stars.

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

5. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The tulips.
(b) The roses.
(c) The daffodils.
(d) The daisies.

Short Answer Questions

1. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

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

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

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

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

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