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

2. "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 artery of truth.
(d) The still point of the turning world.

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) Time future.
(d) The memory.

4. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Lies.
(c) Whispered prayers.
(d) Wind.

5. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Desire.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

5. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

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