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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 states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Implicit.
(b) Spiritually imbued.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Explicit.

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

3. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) The light.
(b) Time.
(c) The darkness.
(d) Sanity.

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

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Heaven and damnation.
(b) Freedom and expression.
(c) Reality and truth.
(d) Sin and sight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

4. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

5. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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