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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The bird.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Time future.
(d) The rose-garden.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

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

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

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

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