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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Freedom and expression.
(b) Reality and truth.
(c) Sin and sight.
(d) Heaven and damnation.

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) There.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) Here.
(d) Nowhere.

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

4. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Appetency.
(b) Obstinacy.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Frivolity.

5. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Lucid stillness.
(b) Transient beauty.
(c) Affective aesthesis.
(d) Suggestive permanence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

5. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

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