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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The shadow.
(b) The soul.
(c) The sensual.
(d) The temporal.

2. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Spiritually imbued.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Implicit.
(d) Ecstatic.

3. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) A robin.
(c) A falcon.
(d) A thrush.

4. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A haphazard line.
(b) A formal pattern.
(c) A vertical mien.
(d) A lazy stroll.

5. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The piano.
(b) The cello.
(c) The organ.
(d) The violin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

4. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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