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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The temporal.
(b) The sensual.
(c) The shadow.
(d) The soul.

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

3. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The dance.
(d) The boar.

4. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The stars.
(c) The still point.
(d) The boar.

5. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of spirit.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of sense.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

4. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

5. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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