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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Truth.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Time.
(d) Death.

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

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

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

5. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The still point of the turning world.
(b) The memory of inveterate scars.
(c) The artery of truth.
(d) The bedded axle-tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

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?

3. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

4. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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