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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of sense.
(b) The world of solitude.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of spirit.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

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