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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The boarhound and the boar.
(b) The fixity of time.
(c) The long forgotten wars.
(d) The machinations of men.

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

4. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The boar.
(b) The heart of the world.
(c) The dance.
(d) The rose-garden.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

2. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?

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

4. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

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

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