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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of fancy.
(c) The world of spirit.
(d) The world of sense.

2. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The summer leaf.
(b) The stars.
(c) The moving tree.
(d) The turning world.

3. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of lachrymose souls.
(c) The world of ineffable sound.
(d) The world without man.

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The Word.
(b) The man.
(c) The beautiful.
(d) The soul.

5. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The roses.
(b) The tulips.
(c) The daisies.
(d) The daffodils.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

2. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

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