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

2. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world without man.
(c) The world of ineffable sound.
(d) The world of lachrymose souls.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

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

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

5. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

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