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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The night.
(b) The sun.
(c) The truth.
(d) The day.

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The dance.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The heart of the world.
(d) The boar.

3. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) The cause and end of movement.
(b) Not in itself desirable.
(c) Itself unmoving.
(d) The quick of movement.

4. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Time.
(b) Desire.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

5. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Under the earth.
(b) The shrubbery.
(c) The forest.
(d) Outside the garden.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

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

5. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?

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