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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) Men's minds.
(b) The wind.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Time.

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

3. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The truth.
(b) All of time.
(c) The future.
(d) Reality.

4. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Men.
(b) Societies.
(c) Truths.
(d) Words.

5. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Spiritually imbued.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Implicit.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

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

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

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

5. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?

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