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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The cold wind.
(b) The vacillation of spirit.
(c) The gyre of history.
(d) The eddies of time.

2. 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 sense.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of solitude.

3. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The night.
(b) The truth.
(c) The day.
(d) The sun.

4. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) Children.
(b) The lotos.
(c) The bird.
(d) The cloud.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

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