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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The piano.
(b) The organ.
(c) The cello.
(d) The violin.

2. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Time future.
(b) Disaffection.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Stillness.

3. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Opulence.
(b) Sincerity.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Stillness.

4. 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) Possibility.
(b) Time future.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) The bird.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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

4. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

5. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

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