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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Incomprehensibility.
(b) Deprivation.
(c) Sense.
(d) Thought.

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The cello.
(b) The violin.
(c) The piano.
(d) The organ.

4. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of sense.
(b) The world of solitude.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of spirit.

5. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) Children.
(b) The cloud.
(c) The bird.
(d) The lotos.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

5. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

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