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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Wind.
(b) The clematis.
(c) Yew.
(d) Darkness.

2. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A frivolous thought.
(b) A perpetual possibility.
(c) A passive potency.
(d) An unrealized actuality.

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(b) The memory.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) Time future.

4. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The future.
(b) All of time.
(c) The truth.
(d) Reality.

5. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of limitation.
(b) The form of foolishness.
(c) The form of temporality.
(d) The form of passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

2. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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

4. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

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

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