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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Sense.
(c) Thought.
(d) Faith.

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

4. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Obviation.
(b) Building-up.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Belching.

5. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) The darkness.
(b) Sanity.
(c) The light.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

2. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

3. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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

5. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

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