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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) The rose-garden.
(d) Time future.

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

4. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The emotion.
(b) The passion.
(c) The form.
(d) The sound.

5. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Dust.
(b) The bird.
(c) Time future.
(d) Memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

2. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

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

4. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

5. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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